Officers' Club

We have gone out two Fridays in a row to the O Club, which is about a half mile from our house.

A high school classmate of mine, 3 years older, was a Marine Corps pilot when Mick and I were first married.  Jet pilots do what they call a UDP or Unaccompanied Deployment Program.  Squadrons from Beaufort, South Carolina and Miramar, California come over here for six months, to train and support the mission of the base.

OMG, get to the point....ANYWAY....everyone who does a tour here, gets a plaque made and they are all throughout the club.  The captain of the cheerleading squad, when I was a freshman in high school (stay with me people) is married to Brad, the aforementioned jet pilot, but wasn't married to him when he was on active duty.

SO ANYWAY!!!!!!  I thought she would like to look at his plaque, so here it is. 

Here's a close-up of his name.  :)

Brad Borman.  Sidebar...we met "Jimi" Hendrick last week and he is PCS'ing to StratCom in fabulous Bellevue, Nebraska in the spring.  And oh, Mom and Dad, I offered your house for him to live until his family gets there. I knew you wouldn't mind.  ;-)

This is my new best friend, Megan Coletta, and her husband, Michael "Joey" Coletta, who is the Commanding Officer of our unit, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron.  

Isn't she fabulous?  ☺

I love this patch!

Again, Mick is asleep and I should really run this post by him for accuracy before posting, but well...I'm not going to do be able to do so....but I have noticed over our five weeks here that whenever a senior Marine greets a junior Marine the senior Marine asks "How you doing, Devil Dog?" or some variant, and the junior Marine answers "Living the
Dream, Sir." 

It must be an Iwakuni thing.  We are living the dream.  The "best kept secret in the Marine Corps" dream. 

☺
So Mick just came down after I published this and tells me "Living the Dream" is a common thing Marines say to each other.  This is what happens when you live on an Army post (Charlottesville) and a Joint Command (SOCOM) for the past seven years.  We've been living the dream...but we are SO enjoying our time at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.