so the deployment thing is a little hassle. i totally feel like a jerk as far as my company goes because so many things pop up that i have to deal with. i'm supposed to do training thurs, fri, sat and sun (one weekend a month my ass). well last week "hey, why don't you come in wednesday and do some prep work?" sure. no problem. so then "hey, we need to send some people out to north carolina next week and uhm. you're going." "okay, when do i leave?" "sunday". "what. uhm. we're supposed to do training on sunday" "yeah. not now. now you're just going to fly out there sunday, and oh, you'll be taking 14 other guys with you. keep them in line". so with virtually no notice my employer is stuck one short for the next ten days. and it's just going to get worse and worse as we get closer to the date.
so for all of you guys out there who are employers or supervisors of guys who are in the guard/reserve just let me say "thanks". sometimes we get so wrapped up in what a pain in the ass it is for us, that we forget about what a pain in the ass it is for you guys to deal with us. thanks for not piling on the guilt, thanks for being supportive of us... it helps. it really, really does.
so far there's at least 2 weeks spread out through the rest of the month i'll be gone, then another ten days in july, at least four days in august and i'm still waiting to hear on a 2 week class.
next week won't be too bad. ft. bragg is definately my home away from home and the class is a good one. it'll be nice to drop down to sea level and get some good runs in in the backwoods there and hopefully i'll bump into some old friends.
in other news those books that were going to last me for two weeks or so? yeah. i'm done with all five of them. sunday and monday. i have ZERO self control. and to be honest? they're not the best plots. but the characterization is so great.
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Holy crap! Travel safe! Will you at least have net so you can keep us posted?
Are you heading to Fort Jackson? I have a friend who is there now finishing up his second round of training. He is a British citizen who enlisted in the Medical Core, well probably won't end up there though...Like your blog, you title is catchy lol
Remember that list I posted when Law Girl needed a book fix? Read those.
Or have you gone through them?
Should I post another list?
:)
Ugh... I always wondered about that... what happened to the full time jobs when you're in the reserves. Guess I know now.
God speed friend. Sorry I haven't been here for a while, so busy.
I read through a month or so, all caught up. The fourth is coming in a couple of days. I wanted to make it by to my favorite soldier and say thanks again for your efforts.
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