He came home for a visit last night.
I was asleep when he pulled in last night, but in my office at 06:00 this morning to tell me he's going off with his older biological brother for breakfast and hitting a local car show in another town (long story, but I believe I mentioned both of our boys were adopted at a young age).
I had to ask him why he got a hair cut (he keeps his hair within regulations apparently, but longer IMO than I think it normally should be when I see him home LOL) it looked more like a high and tight this morning.
Apparently he was teaching a visiting high ranking official "one on one" on something new. He told me some other things he was doing, and he really seemed happy and enthused with what he was doing. I'm kind of impressed with him training this "official" because this guy is up the food chain after my curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to look.
The reason why I'm really proud of him is I found out from him that his first recruiter kind of screwed him over on his enlistment (he didn't realize it at the time). I couldn't figure out why he didn't get a choice of his MOS's (or whatever the air force calls it), and he didn't know what tech school he would go to until after he finished basic (apparently our son basically let the Air Force decide where to put him which was a big NO NO in my book but he never explained it to us and we didn't force the issue and just wanted to be supportive).
Son wanted to go into the mechanical field (either air craft or vehicles) and got something totally different. I explained to him when he was in tech school that sometimes we don't always get what we want in life, but what determines your future is how you react to something that you don't expect to get. Give 110% of yourself, be enthused, be trainable and act nice with your coworkers is exactly what he is doing even though he was originally disappointed in tech school on what he got.
Since he got that award of some sort for the work he's doing a couple of months ago, he's doing exactly what I told him and he seems happy. Only thing you can really hope for your kids IMO.
Apparently he needs to take some more tests, but he seems to have a good grasp on what he needs to accomplish to get to the rank where he wants to be when his enlistment is up, which tells me he has a game plan. He's also the go to guy for his friends on base when they want to do work on their cars he's reliable LOL. It's also nice to know he's using the tools I bought him before he enlisted (whenever I ask him what he did over the weekend, generally helping someone on their car).
His ONLY kryptonite is his choice in "girlfriends" IMO, but I won't go there... LOL
