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Hello all! It's great to be online again.
For anyone who reads this, I hope your summer was as friggin great as mine. I want to hear about your summer stories so ya'll should call me or write (packages will be accepted, too):
C/C Lichatz
Company 3, Platoon 2
Naval Academy Preparatory School
197 Elliot Street Wing 1
Newport, RI 02841-1519
I'll start off by talking about yesterday a bit then I'll go onto a brief summary of indoctrination at the Coast Guard Academy and at the Naval Academy Preparatory School.
Second day of off-base liberty yesterday. Drove around with a couple of my shipmates (only on-island) and saw the mansions and beaches. Went for paninis, coffee, then to pick up school supplies at walmart for the first day of classes tomorrow (bah!). And the highlight of my summer: met up with eric at walmart. Sounds gay but i fucking saw him and that's all that matters. This summer made me realize how much i love him and what is really important in my life. A lot of people don't get that opportunity. I know a bunch of you have already seen him and doesnt he look great in uniform? He hasnt changed one bit except he looks better than ever. I couldn't stop smiling all the rest of the day.
After seeing him I went to the Newport Jazz Festival. Tickets are $65 but because I was in uniform and am a part of the military, i got in for free. So many perks about working for your country...
First Article of the Code of Conduct: I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
Sorry, from now on i may pop in some of the material i had to memorize this summer. Back to my story, i finally went to Newport Grand Jai Lai, too. For anyone who wishes to gamble, it is 18 and up there. All video slots but it is still fun. Lost my first dollar to a casino.
Hmmmm....indoctrination. The Coast Guard Academy kicks ass. Loved being there for nine days preparing for NAPS. The people are awesome and i felt at hime. Saw eric a couple of days...was odd but it kept me positive. Went to NAPS after the nine days. The coasties looked the best in uniform and knowing what we were supposed to be doing. Everyone else was clueless and were yelled at constantly by the outrageous number of 55 cadre (meaning one for every six candidates). We also have gunnery sergeants here. In other words, NAPS is about a million times more dificult than the Academy will ever be. Eric's swab summer was a breeze compared to this crap.
An average day here consisted of waking up at about 0430, running at least three miles, shower, and eat chow. What happened after breakfast changed each day. The only thing that was the same everyday was lunch, dinner, and drill. Normally, we would spend about 6 hours on the bulkhead each day (one day we were standing there for five hours straight...they made us guzzle liters upon liters of water, so many people puked, studied reef points, had to sound off answering questions, and some unlucky people were given what i call assignments, can only explain those in person), get PTed at least once, and get MPTed at least once (motivational physical training...when they thought we weren't puting out enough they made us do this, we had to push deck, do situps, countless leg and arm workouts...my favorite are sun gods, my shoulders seriously have gotten larger...oh, we would do this for at least an hour at a time, and go running after). Every once in a blue moon we had the privelege of sailing or going to the doctors to get numerous shots...our only free time to relax. It sucked. The entire time during indoctrination we ran everywhere we wanted to go and if we were stopped, we either had to be reading reef points or pushing deck. At one point my shoulders were so sore I couldn't do more than thirty one day. I think we did at least two hundred a day. It fucking sucked. Haha, the friggin swabs couldnt push deck. What a joke. I thought NAPS was supposed to be easy. Such a surprise. My only motivation for the entire summer was the phone call to eric the day indoc ended and knowing that shortly after I'd be able to see him. I love him so much.
If you guys want to hear some good stories about the summer, call me. Going through everything sucked big time and i cried myself to sleep so many nights, but looking back on everything makes me laugh. Navy sucks but a lot of the people here are pretty cool. One of the things I really learned this summer was to appreciate even the smallest things in life. Being able to make phone calls, sleep in until 0630, walking around on base or just newport, listening to music, and being able to laugh (had to maintain military bearing the entire summer...no talking unless spoken to, no laughing, no eyes out of the boat, and no moving unless instructed to do so) is such a privelege. It makes me enjoy things so much more and so many people don't know what they have in life. The Coast Guard and Navy (as much as I hate the Navy) do so much to protect that and make sure that people get that freedom. Life is a really fragile thing.
For anyone who reads this, I hope your summer was as friggin great as mine. I want to hear about your summer stories so ya'll should call me or write (packages will be accepted, too):
C/C Lichatz
Company 3, Platoon 2
Naval Academy Preparatory School
197 Elliot Street Wing 1
Newport, RI 02841-1519
I'll start off by talking about yesterday a bit then I'll go onto a brief summary of indoctrination at the Coast Guard Academy and at the Naval Academy Preparatory School.
Second day of off-base liberty yesterday. Drove around with a couple of my shipmates (only on-island) and saw the mansions and beaches. Went for paninis, coffee, then to pick up school supplies at walmart for the first day of classes tomorrow (bah!). And the highlight of my summer: met up with eric at walmart. Sounds gay but i fucking saw him and that's all that matters. This summer made me realize how much i love him and what is really important in my life. A lot of people don't get that opportunity. I know a bunch of you have already seen him and doesnt he look great in uniform? He hasnt changed one bit except he looks better than ever. I couldn't stop smiling all the rest of the day.
After seeing him I went to the Newport Jazz Festival. Tickets are $65 but because I was in uniform and am a part of the military, i got in for free. So many perks about working for your country...
First Article of the Code of Conduct: I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense.
Sorry, from now on i may pop in some of the material i had to memorize this summer. Back to my story, i finally went to Newport Grand Jai Lai, too. For anyone who wishes to gamble, it is 18 and up there. All video slots but it is still fun. Lost my first dollar to a casino.
Hmmmm....indoctrination. The Coast Guard Academy kicks ass. Loved being there for nine days preparing for NAPS. The people are awesome and i felt at hime. Saw eric a couple of days...was odd but it kept me positive. Went to NAPS after the nine days. The coasties looked the best in uniform and knowing what we were supposed to be doing. Everyone else was clueless and were yelled at constantly by the outrageous number of 55 cadre (meaning one for every six candidates). We also have gunnery sergeants here. In other words, NAPS is about a million times more dificult than the Academy will ever be. Eric's swab summer was a breeze compared to this crap.
An average day here consisted of waking up at about 0430, running at least three miles, shower, and eat chow. What happened after breakfast changed each day. The only thing that was the same everyday was lunch, dinner, and drill. Normally, we would spend about 6 hours on the bulkhead each day (one day we were standing there for five hours straight...they made us guzzle liters upon liters of water, so many people puked, studied reef points, had to sound off answering questions, and some unlucky people were given what i call assignments, can only explain those in person), get PTed at least once, and get MPTed at least once (motivational physical training...when they thought we weren't puting out enough they made us do this, we had to push deck, do situps, countless leg and arm workouts...my favorite are sun gods, my shoulders seriously have gotten larger...oh, we would do this for at least an hour at a time, and go running after). Every once in a blue moon we had the privelege of sailing or going to the doctors to get numerous shots...our only free time to relax. It sucked. The entire time during indoctrination we ran everywhere we wanted to go and if we were stopped, we either had to be reading reef points or pushing deck. At one point my shoulders were so sore I couldn't do more than thirty one day. I think we did at least two hundred a day. It fucking sucked. Haha, the friggin swabs couldnt push deck. What a joke. I thought NAPS was supposed to be easy. Such a surprise. My only motivation for the entire summer was the phone call to eric the day indoc ended and knowing that shortly after I'd be able to see him. I love him so much.
If you guys want to hear some good stories about the summer, call me. Going through everything sucked big time and i cried myself to sleep so many nights, but looking back on everything makes me laugh. Navy sucks but a lot of the people here are pretty cool. One of the things I really learned this summer was to appreciate even the smallest things in life. Being able to make phone calls, sleep in until 0630, walking around on base or just newport, listening to music, and being able to laugh (had to maintain military bearing the entire summer...no talking unless spoken to, no laughing, no eyes out of the boat, and no moving unless instructed to do so) is such a privelege. It makes me enjoy things so much more and so many people don't know what they have in life. The Coast Guard and Navy (as much as I hate the Navy) do so much to protect that and make sure that people get that freedom. Life is a really fragile thing.