Saturday, December 31, 2011

John Kipp Oplinger's BMT Air Force Graduation

I started my trip off in Phoenix to visit my college roommate Allyssa. We decided to drive to San Diego and spend a few days there since neither of us had ever been there. Allyssa had never been to CA and never been to the Pacific Ocean. So even though it was cold and raining we rolled up our jeans and went in the water!!
La Jolla cove
Surprisingly the animals were still out and about even though it was raining!
I met Uncle John in San Antonio. This is at the ceremony where they received their airman's coin. It downpoured for about 5 minutes after the trainees were all in place...700 of them. They had to just stand there and deal with the rain! (I awesomely had my poncho from the zoo that I quickly slipped over myself and our valuables!)

(BMT = Basic Military Training)

At the graduation/parade...unfortunately from the rain which leads to mud the few days before graduation the graduates had to wear their fatigues instead of their dress blues. Still looks good though!!
After graduation John got to take us back to his dorm to show us some of what he has been doing the past 8 weeks. I wanted his to come repack my suitcase after I saw his locker...haha

2 comments:

  1. Looks like a fun trip! Great pics! The one of Uncle John and John is nice!

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  2. Congratulations, John! Thanks for the pictures, Kris.

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