Someone stole one of Matt's shoes. This is a low-down, dirty, rotten thing to do. Matt is not allowed to go off base in his ABUs, he has to have his blues on. And if he has only one shoe, he can not wear his blues! He found out that one of his shoes were gone Sunday morning at 1am when he got up to use the bathroom. Guys had been trickling in over the passed few hours from the hockey game and Matt had gone to bed at 10 so sometime between 10 and 1 someone was up and took a shoe.
Matt spent as long as he could in searching for the missing shoe before church but ended up wearing his ABUs so he wouldn't be late but when church was over he was told by his MTI that he would not be allowed off base unless he found a replacement. We went to the clothing issue store- which was closed of course, then we went to the Base Exchange and found a pair that was similar to what he normally wears and bought those. Unfortunately those did not work and his MTI went to another flight to borrow a pair from them that Matt could use for the day. That was good.
So we ended up loosing about 3 hours of our off base pass and because of that decided not to go to the Riverwalk like originally planned. A little disappointing. After Matt had to go back to the dorm that night the MTIs did a mandatory bag search for every man in the platoon. Some of the guys were really ticked and they still didn't find the shoes.
Luckily there was another guy in another flight who just happened to have 2 pairs of shoes and Matt was ordered to go buy the shoes from him. The guy was kind enough to just give Matt the shoes (a million blessings to him!) and everything turned out great.
Had Matt not gotten a pair of shoes he would have been held over for an entire week until there was another bus headed to where he needed to go. It wouldn't have been calamitous but it wouldn't have been enjoyable.
Certainly, this makes for a good story but it wasn't enjoyable to live through! Matt's stomach was in knots all day!
Our farewell was hard. Matt and I both cried but it was bitter sweet. We know he is going to be done within a matter of months now and we won't be separated again for a little while. Emmaline didn't understand the farewell and at first refused to give Daddy a kiss good bye. But she did and it was sweet.
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