I find myself wondering "What happened to my blog these last two years?" I suppose it was the promotion and new responsibilities at work. At this moment, I'm writing from the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, LA. It has been a great exercise, lots of challenges and lessons learned in my work as a Brigade Chaplain. 2nd Brigade has a great team of six battalion chaplains, with two extra battalions joining us for this rotation.
They say that this is the largest exercise here since the 1942 Louisiana Maneuvers. When I called my father and spoke about what we're doing here, he reminisced about his time in Louisiana. His regiment came to Louisiana to train before going off to war in Europe. Eventually we'll go to Afghanistan, and then I'll write a bit more regularly :o).