I received another letter from Nate today. Since he doesn't have time to write, he asked me to pass on what he says...

4/20
Another update - hurt my left knee/ankle. Knee is better, ankle might be tendonitis... and is getting worse I'm getting physical therapy starting tomorrow (Monday). Still on full duty. Marching is going well, the only one is IT (intensive training)...but I've been good so I've been getting a lot less IT.... We do see boats but we have seamanship as a class. So far we've done lookout training, the 5 knots (bowline, square knot, round turn and two half hitches, clove hitch, and slip clove hitch). They are all easy.... and we've used the helm simulator (pretend steering boat). We did more slashing 0's (where we stand arms length from the bulkhead and use a pen to cross through 0's the size of 12 font).

Send letters! He loves the company!