Carrie's Soccer Triumphs

In the weeks before Carrie found out she was pregnant with our first child, Carrie played for the Andersen Air Force Base Bombers, in the Guam Women's Soccer league, the highest level of soccer on the island. In her five games, she was voted player of the game three times by the opposing team's players. Playing sweeper, she reprised her role as vicious defender that she played for her college team at Western Illinois. I personally enjoyed watching her play serious soccer for the first time. I didn't know her in college, so I didn't get to watch her play at that level. So it was a real pleasure for me to watch her play. She is quite an aggressive player and has no problem with knocking down players on the other team and intimidating them into complaceny. Right before she was forced to stop playing, she was offered a spot on the Guam Women's National Team, a team ranked 75th in the world out of 126 women's national teams worldwide, not too bad for a little island 30 miles long in the middle of the Pacific. Carrie looks forward to playing with them as well as her Andersen Bomber team when she returns to fighting shape after the birth of our firstborn. Here are some pictures of her in her uniform!

Graduated from JASOC and back in Guam

It's wonderful to be back in Guam with Carrie, who is almost three months pregnant. We didn't find out she was pregnant until after I'd left for JASOC in Montgomery, Alabama. I was there for nine weeks with the exception of several days down on the Florida panhandle touring Hurlburt Field and Eglin Air Force and a week in early April in DC getting sworn into the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and touring Bolling AFB and the Pentagon. It was a tremendous trip, and it's nice to have JASOC succesfully behind me. I made a ton of friends in our class of 68. I only knew about 4 before I showed up. The faculty were tremendous as well. But it's great to be back in Guam with Carrie, and our friends and church family here. I've been back in Guam for three weeks now, and work has been tremendous, and Carrie and I have enjoyed Cinco de Mayo parties as well as a big boating trip from my office, from which we will include pictures soon. Life is good.

Here's a picture of myself with Chris Obenshain, Jonathan Marx, and Tim Bosson, some of my buddies I got to visit with in DC.