Bo made it safely to Fort Lee. He had another sweet moment at the Richmond airport. He was sitting outside, waiting on the shuttle, on the phone with me, when a guy in his 60s saw him, walked up, and handed him a 20 dollar bill. The man was quiet and red-faced. Bo tried to return it, he wouldn't allow it. Bo said "thank you, sir, thank you, sir" and the man said "no, soldier, thank you". I can imagine that perhaps this sweet soul might have, maybe even lost, a son of his own to the military.
Once Bo got to the post, all the sunniness turned dark. He is back to being treated like a peon. He says the sargents are mean and the soldiers are all mad. He had to dump out all his stuff, and the sargents went through it and took his pain pills (even though they are prescription) and his food and water. He was told that his AIT starts next Tuesday, not next month. Think that blows our plans for leave out of the water, but it also means he'll be home in about eight weeks. He's in "reception", the processing building. He'll move soon to a permanent facility and hopefully then things will be better.
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