Brian's graduation Part 1

Well time to catch up on posts I guess! These are all pictures from Brian's graduation, I will probably add more pictures when I get the pictures from my Dad's camera as well.

On Thursday morning (10/22) all of the graduating airmen do their last run while their families stand on the sidewalk and try to get a glimpse of them. Later that afternoon is the coin ceremony where they officially go from Trainee's to Airmen. After that ceremony was the first time that we were able to see Brian. It was super exciting! They have to stand in formation until you go and touch them and then they can leave and walk around with you. I walked past Brian a million times and I couldn't see him, he finally gave up on my ability to find him and he cracked a tiny smile (which they really aren't supposed to do) so that I could find him. It was amazing!

The other pictures of the graduation parade are from Friday morning (10/23). I rode the shuttle there from my hotel and then my dad, Julie, my aunt Neli, and Uncle Dwayne drove over and met me there. Everyone had told us how hot San Antonio was but when we were there, it was sooo cold in the mornings! At the parade all of the airmen march past the bleachers and then there are speakers and songs, and then we all rush out on to the field to find our Airmen once again.

Right after the ceremony we were able to walk over and see Brian's dorm. It was crazy to see how he had lived for the past 2 months. You virtually have no privacy in there and I could see how difficult it must have been for all of the guys there. We met Brian's TI's and it was weird because the smaller guy looked so mean and tough and he was actually the nicer guy that let Brian call home on the weekends, and the TI that seemed nicer when we met him was actually the tough super strict one. I guess he is the toughest TI there at Lackland and he does things a lot differently than the other TI's but he is so good at what he does that they let him basically run his own show.

More pictures to come! After our visit to his dorm we were free to go around the town and then he had a town pass for Saturday as well.