Jitter Bug

I received some EXCELLENT news on Wednesday at PT! Apparently the PT we've been having was not the "normal" ATO PT. I guess its usually been harder, but the instructor that usually does it was too busy doing orders to get around to coming to PT. But luckily for all of the "O" strand (ATO's) he's back! Wooo!! I was wondering when PT was going to get harder.... . . . . . ... . . . hah.

But I also checked my calendar and we should only have, TOPS, four PT sessions left with our class because of the two were missing from Labor Day weekend, and we get to "buy out" of tomorrows PT as a fundraiser for the NAVY Christmas party... But I think.. Yes.. I AM crazy.. I think I'm going to keep PTing with the "O" strand until I leave Florida. I actually like this working out in the Military thing.. Very odd I know.

It raining again.. WOO! :]

And I guess this weekend were going to a super cool restaurant, that's apparently on a race track.. And they have races you can watch while you dine. Sweet!

I don't have any exciting news yet. But I'll keep you posted if you keep coming by and checking..

Only 9 more days of school!!!! Woo!

And just a little humor for your day...

Red Light, Green Light

PT

ATO physical training is the training I thought I would receive in boot camp. Uh.. No. Boot camp PT was easy peasy compared to this.... Well it was easy peasy compared to anything really..

This was Fridays workout.

The start was the little black X on the left. The red X's were stops to do pull ups. The blue X was hosing point. The black X at the bottom was our stop for beach workouts. Er. And then once again the left X was ending point. And more workouts. :] quite a run. 3 miles. Which wouldn't be too bad, but we did three miles wednesday, three miles thursday and three miles friday. Oh.. My body is sooo tired.

School is pretty fun. Our teacher is a very good teacher. Our first test is tomorrow. Wish me Luck!!

Graduation is September 14th.. Woo!

Sailors and Marines

I officially started my first day of A School today. It was pretty fun. :)

The most obnoxious thing about the NAVY is that you always have to second guess everything that anyone tells you, unless its "official news".

I was told last week that I got classed up and to be at room 2111 at 0800 on the 4th. That was plain and simply all..

So my first thought was... 8? Usually the important people are already heading to bed by then. haha. Were usually told to be somewhere new for something new at 5 or even 430, so 8 was just wack!

Secondly, "be at room 2111". This would also be the first time we weren't marched out in a big clan of smirfs.

The Navy is slowly being moved into a new working uniform.. Called.. Yes.. The New Working Uniform. (NWS) ha ha. My new teacher, who is a Marine, told us that maybe one day, just maybe, if it came down to it, The Navy would be able to beat the Marines.... If it took place in a blue berry patch.. Or Smirf land. ha ha (Its also a good thing for man overboard.. We'll be so easy to find...... . . . . . . ha ha) --->

But they still TOTALLY rock.. I can't wait until I get mine!

Anyways.. I got to room 2111 at 0800 on the 4th, and we all lined up in the Peeway, and walked to the classroom we'll be in for the next 6 weeks. (The course is 29 days)

Its pretty small, but our teacher is a lot of fun. Maybe the planets are re-aligning or something.. (I guess the chinese had predicted that all the badluck that everyones been going through was/is because the planets have been out of alignment and are supposed to re-align tomorrow). Ha. Or maybe the ironing board is starting to feel bad.. ha ha

I start PT tomorrow morning at 0430.. Ha. Thats an hour and a half before I usually get out of bed. Gee. I can't wait. And then thursday we run the Marines three mile prt. And PT on Friday as well.. Awesome. I cannot wait!!!! :]

Well its off to the NEX (If they let me, I guess were in a tornado warning right now) to get my school supplies.... and to find somewhere to break my foot before tomorrow... ha ha :]

Wish me luck. Oy.

See ya later.. Alligator

June 4th I moved out to Pensacola for my A School, (Which is like the basic schooling for my soon to be job) Aviation Electronics Technician.

Great Lakes felt like ghetto ville compared to NATTC, that's right, its pronounced "Nazi".. Oh boy it cracks me up. This base is HUGE. I definitely still miss Illinois, this place is just waaaaay too hot and humid, there are three trees on base, and no wildlife.... Other than those crazy Marines.. hah.

I live in Delta barracks, which is almost an all female barracks. It also houses the AC's. (Air Control man). That would be a pretty scary job, they direct coming aircraft in for landing.

These are the barracks, galley, and the Mega building... which I'm sure you have already assumed is that MEGA building. It is where all the magic happens. If you don't know where something is, you can just assume its in The Mega Building. ha

The white building you see in the bottom right hand corner is Portside, where I've been working while in holding. But I start school tomorrow... So..

Pensacola is a very unlucky place. But my girls and I have decided to blame it on an inanimate object. Ever since my roommate, Steinbacher, broke this ironing board.. We have had nothing but bad luck. But we keep it around simply because how silly would it be to have to carry an open ironing board across the Quarter Deck. Trust me.. It would be Silly. hah.

Take for example my horribly unlucky Monday of last week. First of all, I had to wake up and go to school. Pretty unlucky already. It was an internet course and to sign into the computers we have to use our "CAC" card, which I just realized stands for Common Access Card Card. ha ha. Well anyways.. mine wasn't working, so another guy and I had to go to the AWAT (which was the class we were taking) office to get a walking chit to go to PSD to get a our cards fixed. If you were here, and new how horrible this office was, you would understand the horrible luck behind it.

There are a couple simple rules to follow when entering this office:

Stand behind the tape in the hallway until the office is clear.

Pound on the door three times and return to your spot behind the tape, in parade rest.

Wait until you hear "Enter".

Open and pound on the door yelling "Student on deck!".

Walk in a military manner up to the foot marks they have in front of the desk.

Stand at attention, "Airman apprentice Webster, Classroom 2243, reporting as ordered".

They tell you to stand at ease, and then critizice everything wrong with your uniform. (They will start making stuff up before they let your uniform slide through)

You state your buisness.

When you get dismissed, they say "dismissed".

"Dismissed Aye".

Take a step back with your left foot.

"Good Morning/Good Afternoon."

About face.

Walk out.

Pound on the door "Student off deck!"

But beware of all the important people in this room watching your everymove. It was my first time into that office that morning, and I had to repeat some steps over and over again. Talk about "Soup Nazi!".

So after I left that lovely office, the other guy and I made our way to get our ID's fixed. The Petty Officer at the desk told us to go have a seat down the hall, which is apparently where they send people to die. We waited for a good hour. And then a woman came to file the line of people that had formed down some hallways into an office. I sat down with another woman, who then decided I would need a brand new ID. (Be known that I had JUST gotten a new ID 13 days earlier). So I went back to the Petty Officer at the desk who gave me a #, and I sat back down to wait. When they finally called my number I was given to another lady, and we began to make a new ID. (I was very depressed when they said I'd need a brand new one, because of ALL of my ID's in ALL of my life, it was the best picture I've ever taken. ha) So we waited and waited for it to print, and.. it didnt work. She had to make THREE ID's before she got one to work. "I've never had this problem before, I don't know what could possibly be wrong", she stated...

Mam... May I suggest the Broken Ironing Board. ha ha

(Oh, and the day before, my roommate and I had gone camping and one of our friends did the whole "I wish I knew karate thing and I'm going to pretend to hit you in the face, but I actually am going to hit you in the face with my crazy nails and put a huge scratch between your eyes, so when you go take a new ID picture you have a lovely dark spot between your eyes") Very sweet of him.

So after being at this office for almost 2 1/2 hours, it was back to the AWAT office. I did better this time though. :]

Lunch came, and lunch time during school is impossible. The lines are so incredibly backed up out the doors. I decided I would go back to my barracks, get something out of the vending machine and go chill in my room. Well... Not one, but TWO vending machines took my money. After spending much more money than necessary I got up to my room only to find the door shut! Errr.

You see, my roommate and I were assigned to a room with a broken lock. You cannot shut the door unless you want to be locked out, and you definitely don't want to be locked out if you're headmates (Your neighbors that share your bathroom with you) are gone as well.. Because then you have to go to the MTI's (Military Training Instructors) and tell them how stupid they are that everytime they go into our room for inspection they shut our door, KNOWING we can't get back in. Oy.

Then it was back to school I went.

There were a couple more things wrong with that day, but I cannot remember them all right now. I try to block it out. hah. It was such a crazy day that I couldn't help but laugh at every sign of badluck. <3

Hoo Yah Pensacola!

Doing my time in the Great Mistakes

I love the cute little nicknames Sailors make for their stations.

Great Lakes - Great Mistakes

Though I loved Great Lakes.

I miss it all the time.

Started off in the Franklin, which as you can see in the picture below, is near the top.

It was in BOONDOCK ville. To get anywhere we had to walk and walk and walk. (See the big plus sign looking building, in the middle.. It's the Galley.) The delicious Great Lakes galley. We had 5 lines, Italian, American, Deli, Boot camp, and Chinese. Delish. Bobby was very jealous. hah.

After several weeks on "hold", not doing much of anything but cleaning. I finally got classed up for ATT (Apprentice Technical Training), which was a fun class learning about circuitry. I had the coolest teacher, and I loved learning about the circuits. It was like a constant science experiment... which didn't deal with chemicals or test tubes.. Just electronics.

(Look in the bottom right of this picture.. The Big white builing with the courtyard, that was the ATT building. Which I was in from 430 to 1230AM.... It was a night class) Boo.

After I started ATT I was moved into the Enterprise, which is near the galley. WOO!! ha ha

It was a huge building, and an incredibly old one at that. The oldest barracks on the base, which was apparently already being used in World War 2...

I tried to make this very clear.. In order to get to my room... I had to walk ALLLLLLL the way around the building.. Boy oh Boy.. Forgetting something was like a small burst of hatred into the world. ha ha.

I miss the trees!

The squirrels.. Ha. We had TONS of squirrels. And at every liberty breifing it was always made very clear "Do not touch the squirrels! Do not FEED the squirrels!". They would actually come straight up to you, as tame as they had been made, which was always frightening for me.. I did not want their crazy little squirrel diseases. Right before I left, a squirrel had decided to jump from our roof onto the tree in our courtyard.. Only to realize he couldnt get back out. He was our pet.. He grew very fond of a McDonalds diet.

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