Good afternoon! Time for a new post. The pace slowed down last week, just a smidgen. It was short lived as we had two tests on Monday and a Graded Leadership Positions (GLP) at an all-day course on Tuesday. I predict it will start to slow down again throughout the rest of the week. Everyone is talking about the closeness of the end of the course, "only 2 Mondays left!"
Next week is the mock-deployment training for the "Air and Space Expeditionary Force." We're purposefully getting kept in the dark about the details of it, but it appears that we will have two groups: a few squadrons at a Forward Operations Base (FOB) and a native/indigenous population. Conflicts and various missions will arise and reaction training will ensue.
Scored expert marksman with the M-9, crushed BELPS, and did moderately well on my informative brief. I'm still in hot soup for a "lack of adaptability" from early and mid-February, but time goes on as some faceless bureaucracy casts judgment on whether or not I should stay here. They've got 2 weeks and 2 days to make up their minds, but I doubt it will take that long.
Life has a unique feeling to it these days. Never before have I lived 7.5 consecutive weeks on 5-6 hours of sleep almost nightly. The middle of each day has evolved from good and novel, to sleeping on my feet and lacking all sharpness, to functional and aware. I am beginning to feel a change out of the most recent phase of functional and aware, but not sure what I'm going into at this point. I suspect it might be the last phase I get to feel here. Thursday is my last academic task (an advocacy briefing), and Friday is my last scored task (Personal Fitness Assessment). Not sure what we'll do the second half of next week and the first half of the week following, but we won't have any more tests or papers to complete, so I imagine it will slow down even more.
Dave,
ReplyDeleteJust read your February and March posts. Dang, as difficult as it is, dealing with the threat of getting booted and no sleep you sound like you have it under control. I salute you!
All is well out here with warm weather for the past 2 weeks and now rain for the rest of the week. Jim and Rachel are the same which is no news is good news.
I had the TURP proceedure for the prostrate so I am convolesing for the next couple of weeks then I should be able get back on the bike. The worst part was when they removed the catheter, It felt like they were pulling a pineapple thru mu unit. So fucking painfull. But that was last wednesday and I am slowly getting back to normal.
Sheri and I started on the garden last weekend where she weed wacked ad rototilled and I built 4'x4' redwood raised garden beds.
We are going for gusto this year using great soil, fertilizer and screened bed bottoms to keep the gophers out.
Rama World is super busy so I am off to work.
Press on Dave
Jed