Sept. 28, 2011

Dearest Blog,
Today was a good day. It's about time.
Last night I got woken up twice by the officer of the deck (the guy who checks on all the divisions during the night). He woke me up the first time so he could yell at me because my watch stander was carrying his flashlight in his pocket instead of his hand. The second time he woke me up was due to the fact that my watch stander wrote something wrong in the deck log. Each day we write about 8 pages worth of info into the deck log and everything has to be perfect. Every period, comma and every letter and number perfectly formed. It it's wrong, I get chewed out.
Anyway, I got up at 3:15 am so I could shave and proof the deck log before Reveille (time to get up). We immediately got our sweats on and marched to Freedom hall (which is the huge athletic training facility here on base). This morning was our second physical fitness assessment, which of course I passed. I did 70 some sit ups in 2 minutes and 60 some push ups in 2 minutes. Then I had 14 minutes to run my 1.5 mile, but I got it done in 11:32 minutes.
After PFA, we marched back to our barracks and ate chow. Then we went to class to study Naval History for a couple hours. It's all computer based training which makes it very difficult for me to stay awake. After that, we had to get ready for our personal inspection and weapons turnover inspection. The first being where the inspector inspects your uniform to make sure you are wearing it properly. He also asks you a question that you have to answer correctly. You can take two hits before you fail the inspection. Needless to say, I took zero hits. The second inspection involves turning over a 9 mm pistol. I passed that one flawlessly too. The entire process took about 2 hours-and we were standing at attention the entire time-it kills my legs and back to stand at attention for that long. After that, we went to chow for dinner which was actually good tonight-meatball subs. The rest of the night was spent preparing our rack for tomorrows inspection. We will be gone and an inspector will go through our bunk to make sure everything is ironed and folded to Navy's specifications, and placed in the right spot inside our bunk.
Anyway, today went really fast, so that made me happy.
OH!!!!!Almost forgot-Our Chief (who leads our division)called me into the office today after the inspection and actually told me I was doing a good job! Apparently there were no mistakes in my deck log-each mistake counts as a hit towards our division score. Hits are very bad. But it was great to hear from her! It gave me the umph I needed to get through the next 22 days.
I better get some sleep. Night. R:)