64 Pallets
This morning, I am sitting in radio and enjoying the peace and quiet and good life for a change. Watch was over 2 hours ago but I am chilling in here during stores unload. Stores unload is what the 64 pallets is about. We are pulling in to a certain middle eastern country (with a navy base) next week and instead of humping it our first day in port they decided to do a RAS and CONREP this morning. I know it seems like the ship is really trying to help the sailors out but really it’s just so we can get this out of the way to concentrate on all the other work that has to be done in port. I hope a large portion of my mail is on one of those 64 pallets, I have been waiting 6 weeks for some stuff while other people here have been getting packages after like 10 days of waiting.
This port visit coming up is a working port visit. No one is thrilled about it. The way it will probably roll is that we will work all day till about 1800 and then be able to head out and shop at the NEX and get some decent food and maybe a drink before being back on the boat by 2359. It’s gonna suck but as bad as it will be, we need to enjoy it cause rumor has it that we won’t be back in another port until Christmas. To add salt to the wound, my division is also going through DITS (Division in the Spotlight) while we are in port. DITS is basically a super inspection on you, your equipment, your knowledge and your spaces. I can almost guarantee there will be a whole post dedicated to DITS.
This week has been EMI-tastic this week. These 18 hour days are doing wonders for me. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before! (Note the sarcasm in my type) I am night of the living dead scary by the end of my shift. Appropriate for Halloween I guess. I did manage to get my PQS done and now I just need to take the test to get off EMI.
NBA season started a couple nights ago and my Orlando Magic are 2-0, a great way to start off the season, especially without Rashard. They have CASREP’d our DTS (Direct to Sailor) TV system, so hopefully we can get that fixed and get some sports up in this place. I am missing so much sports, it’s quite literally killing a little piece of me everyday.
I hope this working party is done with a quickness this morning so I can get a few meager hours sleep before I start this vicious cycle all over again.
They totally played Thriller this morning for reveille and I was living for it. Happy Halloween!
