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Kotiutumispäivä/the day of freedom: 08.07.2011
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Who would have thought, that this day would actually arrive? Tomorrow after breakfast I'll change my army uniform to civil clothes for one last time.

I left home on July 12th 2010 and traveled to Riihimäki, Signal Regiment knowing that this wouldn't be easy. I never doubted how I would handle it mentally, but I was afraid of my physical condition and especially health. My aim was to serve 9 months as a military police.

Now, after numeral series of events, coincidences, training, memories and moments I'll get to reserve after 12 months of service, from Lahti, Häme Regiment as a med sergeant, after training NCO's in Non-commisioned Officer School. This will happen tomorrow on the 8th of July 2011.

It feels unbelievable. Even thou some doubted that I'd pull this through, it has come to this. Happy, proud, melancholic. Those are the feelings this day is made of.

If I was to say something about this year, I could say many things. But on top of it all is proudness. Of course I'm proud of the promotion I got over a month ago and the fact that my team has always been the best. But there's something even greater than all of the other achievements together.

It is incredibly great to think backwards and think that I've had a priviledge to train at first a platoon of jaegers with too collegues. Then it was a platoon of medics with just one colleague. And for the last couple of months, I trained alone a whole platoon of NCOs. According to the great results and feedback I might say that I succeeded. I believe we trained great new NCOs with amazing staff members this time. I just hope that the good training they got from me and from us will pay itself back right from Monday morning when the next group of conscripts will step on service. This continuum, the fact that I might have affected positively to someone's serivce, feels just amazing.

A big thank you to all of those I've worked with and spent some time with during my service. I hope we'll meet in reserve in the future.

Sergeant Myöhänen 362, II/10 SotLK LääkK apuk rogers.
Aamuja.