He finally did it.......it took years of studying, whining (yeah that was me), complaining (also me), and late night sessions of reading questions out of the PDG and CDC's to get it into his head (me again) but he took the test and past and now he has gone from a Staff Sergeant to a Technical Sergeant (Tech Sgt. for all those non military people out there). We have waited years and it is official he won't retire as a Staff, ha ha ha (that would have been pathetic). He officially sewed on his stripe Sunday, February 1, 2009 and on the 2nd there was a promotional ceremony that we all got to attend. I got a rose and we all got to go on stage for a photo op, the kids' favorite part. The entire theater of people even got a laugh when during this picture taking Daylon was trying to move his certificate so it wouldn't be over Braydon's face and instead he put it entirely over mine (yeah thanks Daylon). He swears it was an accident but it was so Daylon's nature to do that to me, so after the laughing and some situating of the certificate we got our picture. Daylon went to go stand back in formation while Braydon and I went to leave the stage. What? You ask? I didn't mention Ethan??? He also went to stand in formation with his dad which got the Deeds family another laugh, leave it to us to provide comic relief. It was the cutest thing though he was even standing in military form. We are all so proud of him and looking forward for testing, in 2 years for Master Sergeant.
He finally did it.......it took years of studying, whining (yeah that was me), complaining (also me), and late night sessions of reading questions out of the PDG and CDC's to get it into his head (me again) but he took the test and past and now he has gone from a Staff Sergeant to a Technical Sergeant (Tech Sgt. for all those non military people out there). We have waited years and it is official he won't retire as a Staff, ha ha ha (that would have been pathetic). He officially sewed on his stripe Sunday, February 1, 2009 and on the 2nd there was a promotional ceremony that we all got to attend. I got a rose and we all got to go on stage for a photo op, the kids' favorite part. The entire theater of people even got a laugh when during this picture taking Daylon was trying to move his certificate so it wouldn't be over Braydon's face and instead he put it entirely over mine (yeah thanks Daylon). He swears it was an accident but it was so Daylon's nature to do that to me, so after the laughing and some situating of the certificate we got our picture. Daylon went to go stand back in formation while Braydon and I went to leave the stage. What? You ask? I didn't mention Ethan??? He also went to stand in formation with his dad which got the Deeds family another laugh, leave it to us to provide comic relief. It was the cutest thing though he was even standing in military form. We are all so proud of him and looking forward for testing, in 2 years for Master Sergeant.
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Congratulations!! Woo Hoo!
Carma
Congrats!
(I read this post earlier and didn't comment.)
Gotta love a man in blues!
WAy to go! At least your kids wanted to be there. When MIke got staff we went on stage and Jack didn't want to go. He was so mad he made this awful face which made everyone laugh and it made him more mad. Poor kid really doesn't like big groups. That's so exciting. I'm looking forward to the day we sew on tech. :)
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