Long over due update

Long over due update

To everyone who has checked this blog out hoping against hope that there will be something new posted I apologize.  It’s been a crazy couple of months.  

I have been extremely busy at work.  For a couple of months I was the Alfa Company Commander.  Talk about a busy job, but very rewarding nonetheless.  We developed a good Company training plan and began to implement it.  
Then the new LT came aboard and I was asked to take the back seat again and let the grownup drive.  LOL….  That’s how it feels being an Ensign sometimes.  The time honored tradition of not letting the Ensign do anything important unless there is a shortage of people.
But the management found a new job for me.  I became the Officer Seabee Combat Warfare Coordinator.  That has turned out to be a fairly rigorous job as there were four LTs who needed to go through the final qualification portion in the first month.  (It’s hard to believe that this job has only been going on for about three months.  (It feels more like six.)
Of course this is only a co-lateral function; I am still the Assistant Alfa Company Commander.  In the Army or Marine Corps, this would equate to the Company XO.  But it’s not and the job really isn’t the same.  I pretty much work the admin side, helping out with evals and such.  It’s been okay.  I have certainly learned a lot about writing evals, which is good.

A couple of weeks ago the Chief’s Mess and the Wardroom had our annual Chief’s and Officers Combat Skills class, which includes a week of classroom and a week out in the field.  (Chief’s and Officer’s style of course.)  It rained cats and dogs up at Fort Hunter-Ligget.  Digging run off water diversion ditches was about the high-lite of the week.  We had some good times though.

Through this all Kristin, Ronan, and I have been getting ready to move to Japan.  Our overseas suitability screening is finished, and the passports have been applied for.  I still have to sell my car though.  Rebecca is going to be buying Kristin’s car so we have that covered.

We’re looking forward to going up to Portland and seeing everyone for Rebecca’s Graduation Ceremony.  And we’re looking forward to Michael Marrero’s return from SWA here in the next month.

Well I think this is enough for now.  Have a great week.

~Josh