29 Aug
This morning we watched some soldiers practicing their buddy care skills right across the street from the campground. We train like we fight and taking care of our battle buddies or wingmen is top priority. Here they have manikins likely simulating wounded warriors and they are advancing and recovering them and then applying first aid. Later we saw soldiers with moulage and they were treating the various wounds.
A random photo from last evening, a herd of deer across the street from the campground, roaming the fort. Doreen was not impressed...
Doreen and I enjoy seeing and exploring this great Nation as we travel about, but what really makes our travels fantastic is reconnecting with friends, relatives and military comrades. I miss my military career but what I really miss is the people. Over the 42 years, 2 months and 16 days that I served, I met many Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines and a few Coastguardsmen! Today we reconnected with Cindy Downing and her husband Win. Cindy was the State Command Chief from California and previously Win was the Wing Command Chief in Fresno. I served in the Air National Guard with Cindy on the Enlisted Field Advisor Council and saw her pretty regularly at the meetings. Today we had lunch with them here in Helena after they drove down from Great Falls MT. It was really great to see them and catch up on what everyone has been doing!
On the way back to the campground we stopped to give the big ol' brown truck a badly needed bath and wash off the Glacier National Park gravel road dust! Later in the afternoon I washed the Montana bugs off the front cap of our coach while Doreen hiked up to the lodging building and did some laundry. We are all caught up now going into West Yellowstone and Jackson Hole.
That's a wrap from Ft Harrison. Tomorrow we will drive about 176 miles south to just west of West Yellowstone Idaho for our next stop. Thanks for tagging along!
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