Wow!

I got a phone call from Bubba tonight. My fourth this week! Sunday, of course, and then they had a free day on Monday, so he found a payphone and called briefly. On Tuesday he called as a second soldier died at his base from meningitis and all soldiers were required to call home so the base did not have a flood of phone calls regarding individual soldiers. Tonight he called again. Apparently his platoon won a some kind of combat tournament (including Bubba, who took down a 275 pound former linebacker from Ohio State University, teehee!) and got 10 minutes on the phone tonight and they get 30 minutes tomorrow! That was exciting, but the real news? They named Platoon Leader today...and Bubba is the Platoon Leader! He's the leader for the 54 soldiers in his platoon. He was very excited, to say the least. He'll get a special patch for his uniform I guess, but the reward is the title and job itself. I'm very proud of him!