New lieutenants

October is the time when we harvest the winter crop of OCS lieutenants. We get a bigger batch in the summer, but we get a few in winter as well. I represented the command at the OCS commissioning ceremony, and spent some time in conversation with the two lieutenants slated for our various Engineer units.

No, the picture isn't distorted, the fellow in the middle is indeed a moose. Notice that he earned an award that day for having the highest physical fitness performance of the entire OCS class (or could you tell?). I'm sure his distant ancestors wreaked havoc on invading Romans. I trust he won't follow all his ancestral warrior traditions.

I guess this cake thing is Army-wide, not just in Afghanistan.