Major Promotion Ceremony

10 Years, 4 moves, 3 states, 2 continents, throw in three kiddos, numerous TDYs and deployments and you get the sum of Brian's military career thus far.  Seems crazy that we have been doing this for 10 years of our life. (And even crazier that in 10 more years Brian can retire.) We were very excited for this milestone in his career.

Brian's old Squadron Commander Lt Col Poisson just got stationed in Belgium and was able to make the trip down.  His speech basically listed what Brian has accomplished throughout his career.  He spoke about how Brian went from working on a tug boat in Charleston, to a Maintainer at Moody AFB, to getting accepted to Navigator training, which led us to the AWACS.  Brian respects Lt Col Poisson immensely so it was just perfect that he was able to come pin him on.



The girls decided that Brian looked lonely up front all by himself and left me about halfway through his speech.



A hand for each girl.  They really didn't understand what was going on, but they were loving being up in front of a room full of people.






Brian taking the oath of office.



Brian's first realization of "I am a Major".  His speech basically summed up how thankful he is for the things he has gotten to do for our country, the friends he has made along the way, the places we have gotten to go and how he is looking forward to the future.



We are all looking forward to seeing what adventures the Air Force has in store for us.