Spur Ride

In the Cav World there are many traditions. One of them is a Spur Ride. Soldiers go through a spur ride and then receive their spurs. More info about the tradition can be found at here. Since the guys had recently come back from deployment, they decided to do a Spouse Spur Ride and a Kids Spur Ride. We had 6 stations we had to complete and then were granted our "spurs". In our case, the wives got a t-shirt and the kids received a kid sized stetson (another Cav Tradition). We had tons of fun and really enjoyed our day. We ran through an obstacle course, attack the enemy with water guns and "grenades", learn to treat "battle wounds", how to call for fire, how to apply camo (which I avoided like the plague) and my favorite part............shooting an M240B.

























The kids had a BALL too. They did the same events we did. Here are some pics of Rachel and Patrick. Rebekah didn't get to attend with us :(



























The kids even got to shoot the M240B. Patrick was VERY excited about shooting a "real gun". I didn't bother to tell him they were blanks. We all had a great time!!!