NTC Day 25 - Headed Home

In the morning we went about our normal business, then hung out until 3 in the afternoon.

Once our two coaches arrived we headed of to Victorville. It was a fun drive -- we managed to squeeze all of Ironman 2 into the trip.

We had to make a stop along the way -- it's custom to paint a rock when you finish with a training exercise at NTC. It was done by the time we got there, so all we had to do was take the picture and let the battalion leaderhip get in some gladhanding time.

We had to wait a little while for our flight, but we departed at 1030 and arrived at 0130 at Fort Hood. The flight was fun, too -- the crew let us have all the in-flight movies for free (normally, it's a pay-per-view thing). Plus, they let our baggage handling team sit in first-class.

After getting back to the company area and turned in all our weapons, we had a quick formation. There we got some great news -- not only would we have the rest of Veteran's Day off, but also the following day. Sweet!

So the formation was over by 0245 and I got home by 0300. After a quick talk with the spouse, I was asleep by 0400.

My time at the National Training Center was finished.