The spirit of the American soldier is absolutely fascinating at times. A simple promotion in rank created an opportunity for the logistics team to gather and share a few precious minutes together that many of us fought to carve out in our schedules. Our Logistics Deputy was promoted from Major to Lieutenant Colonel and not without a little fanfare to go along. The actual ceremony was done in a lonely room here at Camp Atterbury but the efforts of smart men and technology allowed for the promotion to happen here in Indiana and simultaneously for his family to watch back home in North Dakota. Who'd a thunk ten years ago that this would be possible? But the best part of the entire promotion was the party afterward! A military tradition would be to host a gathering ... read more

Wow! What a first day out training with the troops! I decided to leave Major French back in her little cubicle sitting in front of her computer. I know she is tied up doing that staff officer stuff so I didn’t want to get in the way. So I found the first group of soldiers I saw and decided to tag along and experience what a soldier goes through in a day. I know I’m not a real army soldier yet, but maybe if I do enough army stuff with others then I can get an honorary membership? So I will try real hard to keep up and become proficient at all the Army Warrior Tasks. Sadly, I picked a hard day to get started. It looked simple enough. Pick up a weapon, put on my ... read more

Boy, it sure has taken me a while to get to Camp Atterbury, but now that I am here let the Army games begin! My official name is Dobie and I am going to be traveling with Major French on her deployment to Kosovo. I am quite an experienced traveler so I have had no issues with my preparation phase. I simply followed her packing list, which I might say was a tad bit over the edge for me. She was so detailed with the list that she had three separate columns; one for Kosovo, one for Germany and one for Camp Atterbury. Obnoxiously, she had each band-aid accounted for, twenty-ones pairs of socks evenly distributed between the bags, aspirin for each location and even down to the nitnoid level that she had the exact ... read more

No pictures... No stories... Just wanted to quickly tell everybody thanks so much for reading the blog thus far and for sending back comments and messages! Training here at Camp Atterbury has been very good but has overwhelmed my ability to maintain positive control on my time management skills. I am heading into about a 12 hour reset to get prepared for the next exercise, so will do my best to get some stories ready for publication this weekend. Gonna go eat lunch and take a nap! Take care! Davina ... read more

Sometimes I am the luckiest person in the world! This time I drew the best cards in the deck and ended up with the funnest logistics team that could be assembled for a short term mission. The “Torch” was not only comprised of the positions I talked about a few weeks ago but also my team. The logisiticians were half of the work party, with six of us being represented in specialized positions. I should probably say that the positions were specialized but we were not. We all came from backgrounds that were very different than what we were sent early to Camp Atterbury for. My partner in crime who worked side by side with me is as close to an army best friend that I have ever had. He is what I would call ... read more