If he were not knee deep in mud he'd bring her his jokes

I'm back, and have been for nearly a month. JRTC was pretty uninteresting.

For my own benefit of recall years from now I'll just note the first week it was ridiculously cold (central Louisiana doesn't freeze solid very often), overall fairly boring, and of very little consequence to me personally as a training event. I spent my free time getting fairly ticked off at two people I don't care about at all anymore, got promoted by someone else's absence to Funniest Person on the staff, and was commissioned to write three sets of sanctioned jokes for inclusion in some briefings to the commander, one of which ("Top 10 Battle Rhythm Events") was deemed safe enough to be used and was well received, but the Top 10 Battle Drills and Top 10 Quotes (half of them my own) were better, if perhaps court martial worthy.

On Valentine's Day I had a my usual enjoyable flirtatious conversation with a wickedly smart and pretty divorcee soldier I only encounter during these field exercises. It ended with the observation, "yeah, you seem like one of those nice guys who will never get married." I sought solace from a more frequent lieutenant acquaintance who more subtly and safely flirts with me. Quoth her: "Oh, Dylan, you'll get married! Besides, you're not actually very nice. This girl must not know you very well."