August 27, 2010

Tobin and I have been married for two and a half years now.  We are loving our life together and learning how this Air Force thing works.  Tobin completed his training as a student navigator in June 2010.  I no longer work as a manufacturing engineer (June of ‘08 through April ‘10), and am a housewife currently.  My newest hobby is growing a little baby Bolton who is due November 23rd.

When we have time to be there, we love evenings at home.  There are two dogs that greet us every time we walk in the door, and we were blessed to find a roomy off-base house to rent that has been very good to us.  But when we’re not at home, the white – er, oily – sands of the Gulf of Mexico are only a 20 minute drive away; plus, we enjoy hanging out with some great friends we met at Hillcrest Baptist Church, our church home here in Pensacola, and Tobin’s classmates from flight school.

Tobin has completed the following sets of training:

1. IFS (Initial Flight Screening) in Pueblo, Colorado (about 5 weeks)
2. ASBC (Air and Space Basic Course) in Montgomery, Alabama (6 weeks)
3. API (Aviation Preflight Indoctrination – aka ground school) in Pensacola, FL (6 weeks)
4. Primary in Pensacola, FL (5/26/09-9/2/09)
5. Intermediate in Pensacola, FL (9/8/09-11/1/09)
6. Advanced in Pensacola, FL (12/7/09-6/4/10)

In progress:
Winged & stashed in Pensacola until the next stage of training.

1. SERE/water survival/parachute training in Washington state: September 20th-October 16th
2. B-52 B-course at Barksdale AFB: April 1st
3. Report date for Barksdale AFB: undecided currently

Thanks for checking out our site!  To all our family and friends, we love having visitors to fill our home, thanks for taking the time to drive or fly all the way down to see us!  We hope to see each of you soon.