He called home last weekend

Private Lohse made it safe and sound to North Carolina to begin his basic training. He doesn't have an address yet because he is moving barracks today. Supposedly he hasn't done much training yet because they (they being the USMC) are concentrating their efforts on organizing and deploying forces overseas, so the efforts are being concentrated on that and the real training will begin this week once those troops have been deployed. That's about all I know for now. I'll update as soon as we hear from him again.

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