Well, today is an interesting day in the life of an Army wife. For the last two weeks I have hardly seen my husband, in the beginning it was frustrating and somewhere in the middle I just got "used" to evenings without him. All I knew was he was doing this training thing for a badge called "EFMB". Something that for a month he has been dreading only because he felt that with all the other pressures & responsibilities of work something would have to give.
Each day this week he would come home and say "Chels I passed today!" and as the week went on I got more and more excited and proud of him (still not realizing what a big deal this is). "EFMB" stands for "Expert Field Medic Badge". All I knew was that each day at around 9pm (some days were more like 3 am and then leave again at 6 am) he would get home dirty and stinky - and that there was a MASSIVE manual he would have to study if he was serious about passing the written test at the end.
Well, this morning he left sometime between 3 & 4 am for his 12 mile ruck march into his graduation. I said I'd be there.... I showed up at at the graduation location, but there were LOADS of soldiers for some ceremony and I was sure I was in the wrong place. Apparently not. A Major General addressed the crowd and the 70 graduates out of the 400ish that started this course. So I am posting to bragg a little about my man! Here is what I have learned : This badge is one of the most difficult and most prestigous to earn. They have been trained and tested under extreme battle conditions to treat wounded soldiers and get them out of the worst combat zone.
I will let Ben write more about it if he wants to, but from our conversations I think he would say one of his highlights was being able to go through this with his medics and get to know each of them a little better.
I am a proud wife today! He keeps amazing me with his talents :)
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