Chaplain Ken

I know it has been a long time since I posted. I know I said I was going to try to do it a little more regularly, but when most of the day consists of classroom instruction staring at PowerPoint, there is not much to write about.
This past week, however, we were at Capstone. Capstone is the final field exercise we have at CH-BOLC. We go to the field for four days at a FOB they have set up here at Ft. Jackson for the purpose of training. It was a very busy four days, but I really...

One of the best activities we had was Convoy Ops. We simulated actually going on a convoy, and we had the chaplain assistants who are also in training with us so I had an assistant with me to provide for my security on this convoy.
On the convoy, we encountered a simulated IED attack, and we had to dismount the truck and take cover. I took this picture as I am laying flat on the ground a few yards into the wood line. You can make out my assistant and his M-16 as he is looking for...

I just got back from helping to lead worship with the 120th BN. It was a great morning. Sorry...I was not able to get a pic, but it was truly neat to stand before a couple hundred soldiers so recently in off the street that their heads are still broken...

Well...it's Saturday morning. That means one more week is in the record books, and I am one week closer to going home...although home is a place I have never lived before (because my family got moved to Fort Riley earlier this week).
When my wife and kids got to the place we leased, even though we put the deposit down last May, they did not have it ready yet. It needed an inspection by the city. When my wife went into the office to get the key and they told her there would be a delay...