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They should be doing fire fighting & damage control this week as well as the infamous OC chamber. Fortunately for Geoffrey, he's been through it before at the Law Enforcement Academy. He was part of a summer program and that was included. They had one young lady that volunteered to be tazed if she could pass on the OC. It didn't happen. :-) NO ONE got tazed.

Richard,

I didn't get a letter today but Geoffrey, said they had been working with weapons earlier in their time there as he was in charge of securing them and getting them handed over to the next division. I've given up on trying to figure out what they are doing because the PIR date we've been given is 7 weeks and 2 days from the time he got there. He has confirmed the PIR date and there have been no changes.

Hey Richard,

I MISSED THE CALL! I work grave yard shift and normally sleep with the ringer off. He called this afternoon during my 3 hours sleep, ( all I got today) and left a message. He sounded a little bummed. I wasn't expecting a call in the middle of the afternoon OR in the middle of the week. You can bet you a$% I'll be sleeping eith the ringer ON from now on. I'd MUCH rather talk to my boy than sleep, I don't care how tired I get at work.

Going to write him another letter tonight when things calm down. Hopefully Div 340 will get their poop in a group so they will have a few more priviledges. :-) Did Eric say anything about what the name of their "ship" is?

Hi Richard,

Glad to hear Eric is okay. I just mailed another letter off to Geoffrey, he prefers Geoff but dad can't seem to get into that mode. :-) Hopefully therr'll be a letter in the mail when I check later.

Hey Richard,

I haven't heard anything yet either with the exception of the form letter they wrote a short note on. I'm actually going to write him again tonight. Hopefully it'll jog his memory that he needs to let us know he's okay. :-)

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