Throwing Rifles In The Wind

All week the weather has been showing today to be VERY windy a rainy! I can't think of better conditions to be throwing rifles with attached bayonets in the air and marching across muddy fields in white pants! But, that is exactly what is on the calendar for today on base! The Drum and Bugle Corps and Silent Drill Team. All week I told Ed it will probably be cancelled unless there was a complete change in the weather. The winds out here are brutal!!! By this morning it was raining and our house was whistling from the wind.

I kept waiting for a text or call to tell me it was cancelled....soon it was time to leave and no notifications of a cancellation so we headed out the door. The minute we arrived to pick up Jennifer and Taylor the call came over it was cancelled. So we headed down to see what our husbands had to do and if they needed anything. I knew The Dude In Blues would already be in uniform and have no phone on him since he doesn't carry it wearing the white pants. We zipped down the road, literally, it's a mile down the hill from our house and found our guys. The kids went ahead and picked up some lunches, there were to be free lunches for the event so the food was already out and I found Ed. He was being driven all over the place doing things as they were in cancel mode.

Having fun zipping around!

I got a quick picture with him and than he was gone again.

And a quick picture of him and Gunny! (Jennifer's husband)

The Silent Drill Team did do a very tiny performance in the parking lot by their buses where it wasn't as windy, so that was fun watching that.

Bummed it had to be cancelled but throwing those rifles in the air in this wind would have been deadly!!! Shoot, it was so windy one of Ed's medals blew right off! The round part off the ribbon!!! I fixed it when we got home.

There's a LOT of work that goes into planning these events so it is a complete bummer after all the work to just start tearing down. On a side note along with the frustration of getting things done there is a lot of humor....like when the fire truck came out Friday afternoon to hose down the bleachers. They brought the giant truck instead of the little one they normally bring. The truck got stuck right in the reviewing area of the parade field and tore up all the grass. Ed had requested 120 sand bags for wind precautions. When the guys were told to fix the field the sand bags were cut open to fill the holes and sod was cut from someone's building on base to lay down on the field. Field looked great! Amazing what guys on a Marine base can accomplish! Oh! And the new Sgt Maj showed up to this duty station without uniforms so Ed was having to do the Sgt Majs job hence the white pants and blues! There were endless other 'oh my goshes' and 'are you kidding me's' but I won't mention them on here!!! All in all it's been a good day. Gotta love being married to a Marine!!!


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