Samurai Surge

George has got to do some really cool things since we arrived in Japan SIX months ago. Can you believe that we've been here almost 6 months (We're about a week shy)?! It has truly flown by. We've done absolutely nothing, but we've done so much. I guess I mean we have so much more we still want to do so it's pretty scary to think how quickly 6 months went by.

It's pretty interesting that I already have "the itch" to move again! We moved 4 times in 22 months and it blows my mind that I get to live somewhere for an entire 3 years; it feels as if it'll be an eternity. However, we can all judge by how quickly 6 months went by that 3 years will not do the same... soon it'll be time to say sayonara para Japan. Yes, I did just use English, Japanese and Spanish in one sentence? AKA, I'm tri-lingual; AKA, I'm awesome. :)

Okay, so... back to George getting to do awesome things. This past week his squadron did what they called a "Samurai Surge" where they sent 7 C-130's into the air as an exercise to see how many airplanes could be launched at one time on short notice... 7 made it, out of 9 that were here on station, and George got to co-pilot one of them. A group of us spouses showed up to take pictures and show our support. It was really neat to see them all take off, land, drop things from their planes and such. It sounds silly but I can't help but feel proud to see little acts like that. I am proud of our country and proud of George and all the other guys/gals that support it.

Here are some pictures of the event! (George is flying the 5th plane in line!)









This is an update... I forgot to mention that there was a competition between George's plane and the six others to see who could drop their thing with the parachute on it(I have no idea of the actual correct term) the closest to the target, and George's crew won! Go George! :)