SEEYA!

      If there is anything I dread more than anything in life, it is good-byes. I HATE good-byes. I have been this way since I was a small child and I don't think it will ever change. Well, as anyone knows being in the military, you have a lot of good-byes. You get to a base and you finally meet some great friends and then before you know it, they are off to PCS somewhere else. There are just two words for this: IT SUCKS. With this being said, I have come to learn some things in the 10 years I have been in the military life..

   Moving is just a part of this life and with every move you meet quite an array of people, and some of these people turn out to be, well actually really good friends. I am talking people whom you never thought you would ever become friends with. These are the people who when you first arrived to base you could never see yourself meeting up with again, let alone being friends with. It's really crazy how that works. I think God looks at our first encounters with these people and looks at our reactions and laughs as He knows that we will most certainly meet up again with these people and become really good friends. He brings people into our lives for a reason, at least thats what I believe.

  As everyone knows pilot training is over and now that this is over, everyone is off to start their new adventures.. its PCS season.. the season of good-byes. We had to watch two really good friends move away today and another really good friend is moving away in just under a couple of months, and then we will be moving in a few months and will have to leave some great people who we met here.. locals I will call them :) While we have only been here 19 months, we have met some amazing people, these people we will never forget, we will cherish the memories and the experiences as we all went through them together.. that's a special bond right there.. not many people understand the military lifestyle and the pilot training world. While some look at it as a negative thing (and I myself, am guilty of this sometimes) I like to look at it as a blessing. If it weren't for our military lifestyle, our paths would have never crossed, we would have never met some of these amazing individuals. It's a small Air Force world, maybe our paths will cross again some day, but if not I know I have nothing to fear or grieve over.. because the friends you meet in the military are friends for life. As anyone in the military or at least in pilot training here at CAFB knows.. its never good-bye, its.. SEEYA!