Well, since I'll be incommunicado for the next 2 weeks or so I thought I'd give y'all an idea of what's in store for me. Remember, this is the plan and we all know how much one of the Navy's plans can be counted on! :)
Day 0: Get there and move in to my new diggs with 19 of my new closest friends. No heat, no insulation, no phone, no internet, hot water iffy. Sleeping bags and cots provided.
Day 1: Paperwork of course. The 6 lbs of paperwork I'm carrying around isn't enough don't you know.
Day 2: Get our spiffy new uniforms and listen to people tell us about what we'll be doing when we get there. Lastly, we'll get the gear we'll be using during training.
Day 3: Land nav. This is where I hope to not repeat my woodland adventure of 30 years ago. Not sure how many landmarks we'll have when we're surrounded by gazillions of specks of sand, rattle snakes, scorpions and deadly spiders. Yeah! :)
Day 4: More death by powerpoint (modern slide show) including listing our "hometown news source" so all the good things I do can be written about and sent home for friends and family to fawn over.
Day 5: Nuclear/Chemical/Biological warfare brief and learning how to wear the gear that keeps us from being harmed by such nasties. Well, except for nuclear stuff...
Day 6: Day one of keeping people alive in combat.
Day 7: Day two of keeping people alive in combat.
Day 8: Day three of keeping people alive in combat followed by how to talk over a radio. (breaker breaker...)
Day 9: Things that go BOOM!, driving AROUND the things that go boom and how to use little things that go BANG.
Day 10: Actually using the little things that go BANG.
Day 11: What to do if the bad guys get you and how to deal with things that shoulda gone BOOM but didn't.
Day 12: I'm leeeeeeeeeea-ving...on a jet plane..can't wait till I come home again.... :)
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Have fun playing with things that go bang, what am i talking about what man would not have fun playing with things that go bang : ) Testosterone
Well, hope I'm not too late adding my comment for you to actually get it before you're incommunicado...
This is a cool idea -- win-win for everyone -- we all get to hear your story, and you only have to tell your story once! You're just so clever... must take after your little sister! (although our mother might beg to differ) :)
My advice: (as if you asked for it!) -- try to AVOID those things that go BOOM. And the snakes, scorpions, spiders, bad guys, and other nasties. How's THAT for training?!?! That's really all you need to know, right? Nothin' to this Navy stuff!
Well, I'm sure you'll have a lot of blogging to do after your 2 weeks... looking forward to the updates! K, H and j say hi and send their love... and of course I do too! Stay safe, Love, J
Avoid the things that go boom? You know, I think you've got something there! :) As far as the 4 deadly creepy crawly slithery things, you just have to shake things out before you slip them on or slip into them.
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