Prelude:PECation

As preparation for deployment, it is time to conduct the pre-mob trainup.  For me, this entailed a two week trip to the posh LaVern E. Weber Professional Education Center on Camp Robinson, Arkansas.  In addition to the excellent training and top notch training site(complete with the Arkansas National Guard Museum), I was able to visit the Petit Jean, Toltec Burial Mound, and Wooly Hollow State Parks, the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, as well as Little Rock attractions such as the William J. Clinton Library and Museum, the Old State House,  River Market, and Little Rock Central High School (the first desegregated High School in America).  Also, we were treated to the biggest snowstorm in Arkansas in recent memory followed by the lowest temperatures in the state since 1996. 

Hell of a kickoff party.