Bryan and Beth Durant

Fort Benning

Beth Ann Durant — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:52:24 +0000

Yesterday at 4:00 pm Bryan got orders sending him to Fort Benning today to begin Airborne school Monday. He left Fort Leonard Wood today at 12:30. I got to spend a little time with him and see him off. He got a promotion for being squad leader through all of AIT. I was in the car and he ran out to me with a paper in his hand showing off his new rank! He was adorable. This week they had been doing graduation rehearsals at night so we hadn’t been ablr to spend much time together. His class graduated tomorrow morning but they all qualified on Monday! They only do airborne ship out on Thursdays of every week. Bryan and 2 others left today everyone else is held over until there are open slots. He will go through proccessing tomorrow and have his physical then have the weekend off i think and start on Monday! He will graduate on Nov 24th!

Oh i almost forgot! He got on the bus and I went to the PX and I got a text message from Bryan saying that they gave him his official orders for Fort Bragg! So he’s on the bus on the way to GA and I’m here. He has the orders and I don’t have a copy so I can’t start all the planning for moving. I like planning and in my perfect world everything would go as planned!

My big brother David is finally getting married I will be heading to his house on Monday and helping him get everything ready. We are all so excited! I am making the wedding cakes!

Bryan Durant 10-02

Rites of Passage

Beth Ann Durant — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:32:21 +0000

There are 5 more days until Graduation. Today they have the Rites of passage.

The Rite of Passage immediately follows the end of the 15k footmarch after the FTX. It marks the completion of all mandatory training and the final transition from “trainee” to “soldier”. It is a fitting end to a tough training and character-building event, and special emphasis should be made by the cadre that these soldiers are now ready to proudly join their ranks. A momento is presented to each soldier by their drill sergeant (US Army brass for the Class A uniform), everyone recites the Soldiers Creed, and sings The Army Song.

This marks the end of the Basic training! They are all finally considered soldier. Of course they aren’t done yet. The next 5 days will consist of cleaning all of their equipment from the Field Training Exercise and cleaning their barrack. The have a final inspection and of course “recovery” and graduation rehearsal. To say the least they are done. I know that Bryan is just ready to be done. He’s strong and has had a lot of self control. I know that he has learned a lot and is ready to go onto AIT (Advanced Individual Training) which will begin on Friday at Fort Leonard Wood. This will be 7 more week and he will graduate on October 3rd! This training is different than Basic and he will have more privileges. The communication will get better which we are both thankful for.

I’m so excited for Graduation! The next 4 days are really going to be slow!

Finals DONE!!!!

Beth Ann Durant — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:25:50 +0000

I’m so relieved now! I hope that I did good. I need to focus on my CLEP test now! Naomi and Jonathan leave tomorrow night! We got the garage clean so their vehicles will be safe. We met with our pastor today. I am really thankful for such an amazing church and all of the involvement and fellowship. I am praying that Bryan and I can find a good church that we can plant our roots. I know that the church is so important. I don’t know how I could have gotten through the last 6 years without the church and God. I know that it would have taken me so much longer to find my way back to God without all the prayer from the people at Waller.

I got to talk to Mama Harrack for a minute today! I really want to travel. I could this summer but Bryan and I wan to do it together. I am excited for the graduation! I’m trying to perfect my cheesecake skills. I’m actually making two right now! We have potluck on Sunday so I hope they turn out good. We got our stove fixed today too! Now I can BAKE! I’m excited.

Those who know me well know I love to bake. Bryan loves meet (he is a man!). Without him around I could be a vegetarian! When we cook that is his area and we usually do everything else together. I miss all the little things we did together. Today we’ve been married 3 months. I keep praying that we will get to spend more time together than apart in the upcoming years. My sister Adina has been very blessed with her husband’s career. He is on his first long deployment overseas. It’s always hard but she is doing great! She is such an inspiration to me. I want to be as close as they are after 10 years.

Adina and Jeremy when they got their Dr. Suess for Elijah! 2005