Friday, Mar. 14, 2003 - 6:17p.m.
Things are looking better tonight... It's still hot and humid, but not so bad as yesterday or even the day before. These past few days the humidity has been in the 96-100% range pretty much non-stop and to be honest I was getting rather tired of it. The week has been long and early, with my average day starting somewhere around 0400 (that's in the a.m. for all you civilians) and ending around 2200. A number of good things happened today that made the frustrations that embodied the earlier portion of this week seem to slip into the void. First, I was awarded phase II which means that after three months I can officially wear civilian clothing once again. Also, my federal and state tax returns came back and were enough to pay off two loans entirely and give me a bit of an edge on a third as well. Even better than that though, I was issued orders just before lunch... Although I don't yet have them in the form of a hard copy in my hot little hands, and probably won't for a few more weeks, unless something major happens to change my status as a sailor they are not going to change.
Bahrain is where I'm bound for although I don't yet know when I'll detach. I've heard a lot of mixed reviews about it, everthing from skirmishes and open street fighting every few weeks to 140 degree temps (in the shade) and limited off base liberty, but it's only a one year billet and once I've served my time there I'm told I can pretty much have my pick when it comes time to choose my next duty station.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Sunday, Mar. 02, 2003 - 9:07 a.m.
So, I joined the Navy to see the world and decided to post this journal as a way for friends and family to keep track of me...
I graduated from boot camp a few weeks ago and was transfered to a holding company in Lackland Air Force Base, Texas where I was given orders to work until the Master At Arms Achademy started to push through a new class. The opening actually came earlier than expected (I was only in holding company for one week) and I have to say they're not screwing around with educating us. After a brief orientation we were thrown right into 9mm/combat shotgun weapons training, which is way more fun than school has any right to be. To my utter astonishment I was the only one in a class of 40 to be qualified as an Expert Marxman. Yes Expert is better than Sharpshooter, in fact, it's the highest rating you can get in the navy for 9M qualification. Now that we've finished with 9M's we have a week of report writing training to look forward to and then it's time for our M-16 qualifications and hand to hand takedowns.
So, I joined the Navy to see the world and decided to post this journal as a way for friends and family to keep track of me...
I graduated from boot camp a few weeks ago and was transfered to a holding company in Lackland Air Force Base, Texas where I was given orders to work until the Master At Arms Achademy started to push through a new class. The opening actually came earlier than expected (I was only in holding company for one week) and I have to say they're not screwing around with educating us. After a brief orientation we were thrown right into 9mm/combat shotgun weapons training, which is way more fun than school has any right to be. To my utter astonishment I was the only one in a class of 40 to be qualified as an Expert Marxman. Yes Expert is better than Sharpshooter, in fact, it's the highest rating you can get in the navy for 9M qualification. Now that we've finished with 9M's we have a week of report writing training to look forward to and then it's time for our M-16 qualifications and hand to hand takedowns.
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