Zac and Lindsay: Our Life As We Know It

Nightfighter Family,
Greetings from Iraq it is September 17th and we are just coming out oftwo days of the craziest weather I have ever seen. It has literallybeen "snowing" sand here which has shut down our missions, tonight weare getting back on track. Everyone is well; we are staying busy with mission preparation and preparations for our replacements. While we are still a few months away from our replacements arriving we are working hard to ensure a smooth transfer of authority with them. We have been communicating with them at the mobilization site to ensure they can hitthe ground running. We are continuing to write our end of tour awardsfor the soldiers and submitting them our higher headquarters forapproval. The leadership of the battalion is continuing to emphasizestaying focused on the mission and SAFETY; we cannot afford any complacency to set in. Many units lose focus as the mission winds down,we are going to ensure that does not happen with the Nightfighters. Ihave challenged each of the soldiers to finish the deployment strong andto really work on their physical fitness. We will be conducting a"Nightfighter PT Badge Challenge" in October. During this eventsoldiers have the opportunity to take the PT Test and earn thefollowing: Any soldier scoring over 250 of 300 Points will receive a Certificate of Achievement, Soldiers who score over 270 with at least 90of 100 points in each of the three events will also receive the Army Physical Fitness Badge for their PT Uniform and finally the highest scores on the extended PT Scale (over 300 points) have a chance atearning Airborne School Slots (we are still working the details on thataward). We will be conducting the PT test on three separate dates inOctober to give everyone a chance to compete. I am looking forward to maximum participation with many soldiers earning recognition. Speaking of PT it is that time of the night for me, so I am heading to the gym. I will write more next week.

Proud to Serve
LTC Jerry Hadley
Nightfighter 6