Mike is home!

From mike in the desert

Wind Tunnel Fun

As part of the pre-deployment fun, the guys Mike works with, some wives and us all went to the Perris Valley Indoor Wind Tunnel. The guys had two hours in the tunnel, just to give you the impact of spending this amount of time in the Tunnel you would usually pay $50 for the short training and then just two minutes in there! Needless to say they all had fun. Mike even worked with the staff to learn how to control his movement on his back, this can eventually lead to being able to free fall in the sitting position.



You can also see some pictures here.

No more "slick bomb"

I have my sewing machine out to work on my current big project and my husband recently asked me to sew some new patches on his uniform. You see the Secretary of Defense was planning a visit and they had to get things ready, including updating the uniforms. In December there was a huge test in which he had to convey his previous 4+ years of knowledge to a panel of navy people who asked a ton of questions. Months of studying paid off and he became a senior tech! Therefore on his "crab" he is no longer a slick bomb but he has a star on the bomb.

He also earned is parachute a few months back and that needed to added as well.


Talk about scary sewing...but all went well. His 3.5 minute talk on EOD stuff was shortened to 1.5 minutes but he met the guy (turns out he is pretty short) and he even got a coin.