http://armystrongstories.com Army Strong Stories is an official U.S. Army blog portal created to share personal Soldier stories. Its purpose is to promote discussion surrounding life in the military, communicate the impact of day-to-day military life and follow the paths of Soldiers enlisted in different areas of the U.S. Army as they experience new opportunities. Sat, 26 May 2012 04:05:05 GMT Sat, 26 May 2012 04:05:05 GMT http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-8/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> Hello, everyone. This is Rob Kirkwood, CIC (Cadet In Charge) extraordinaire, holding it down at the CCS house as the majority of the volunteers go out for the second dinner of the night. For the most part, the food here is great. However, with little meat, it leaves most of us (especially us cadets, who try to make daily trips to the local gym) wanting more protein. So going out to a restaurant for a second dinner is not uncommon. Occasionally it leads to a trip to the discoteca for some...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-8/">read more</a> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:03:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-8/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-7/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> Hi internet! This is Ben, here to give you my little piece of our Peruvian adventures. In the past three weeks I&#8217;ve had an interesting assortment of jobs in cozy little Ayacucho. I&#8217;ve gone on medical home visits, I&#8217;ve been the tech support guy, I help babysit mental challenged kids, but mostly I&#8217;ve been a dentist. I still get a kick out of the fact that people trust me in any of these capacities because I have zero training in any of them. But it&#8217;s ok because...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-7/">read more</a> Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:26:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-7/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-6/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> Rice...John Rice and I take my tea shaken, not stirred, and without coco please. It is half way through our mission here in Peru and the team has hit its stride. This is not to say that we didn't hit it off from the first moment we met. One of the civilian volunteers who spotted us in our CCS t-shirts back in the airport had thought that the 8 cadets, 2 girls, and Beitler adults were all a family. The feeling of friendship extended to the rest of the volunteers as soon as we arrived at the CCS...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-6/">read more</a> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:21:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-6/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-5/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> Hola Amigos! This is Kayla Amsler, reporting from the ever-buzzing living room of our CCS housing. So far, this trip has been nothing but amazing... meeting new people and seeing sights that I cannot imagine being as beautiful anywhere else in the world. Like everyone else, each day here opens up new adventures to be explored as well as challenges to be overcome. My placement during the day, thus far, has been more of frustration than of victory, however. I have been...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-5/">read more</a> Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:08:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-5/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-4/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> This is Jordan Martin writing from 9,000 feet in the hills of Ayacucho, Peru. After a week of getting accustomed to the fast pace of our work in the city, we ventured out into the Andes Mountains to see rural Peru. We drove two hours through dirt roads to the town of Santa Fe and were met by staring villagers. We were led on our 6,000 feet ascent by a family from the town with their pack of llamas, who quickly outpaced us up the mountains. The views took your breath away almost as much as...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-4/">read more</a> Mon, 05 Jul 2010 04:10:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-4/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-3/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> We arrived in Lima, Peru on 26June (Dr. Ruth Beitler, COL Alan Beitler, USMA CDTS Rob Kirkwood, Laura Chachula, Dan Heether, Jordan Martin, Kelly MacDonald and ROTC CDTS John Rice, Kayla Amsler and Ben Kertzman) and were welcomed in the Lima Airport by Starbucks, Dunkins Donuts and Papa Johns! It was not the cultural immersion experience we expected! We arrived at 2130 and needed to sleep in the airport until our flight east to Ayacucho, the home of the Shining Path....<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-3/">read more</a> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:07:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru-3/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/'>Dr. Ruth Beitler</a><br /> Dr. Ruth Beitler, COL Alan Beitler, 5 USMA cadets and 3 ROTC cadets will be traveling to Peru tomorrow to begin work with an organization called Cross Cultural Solutions that pairs us with NGOs in country. USMA and ROTC cadets just met and have begun the process of getting to know one another. We leave tomorrow and are very excited to get to Ayacucho, our village in the Andes. Talk to you from there! Ruth...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru/">read more</a> Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:39:00 GMT Dr. Ruth Beitler http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/dr-ruth-beitler/preparing-for-the-future-humanitarian-work-in-peru/