Firing Range
Well it has been more or less fun here in KY but in the end I am glad to get out of here. I have enjoyed learning the tanks. It has been something very new and will always be apart of my life now. Then again I will be working on them for the next 3 years at least but I will be doing it in 29 Palms and overseas. I am a little worried because the gunnery sergeant asked if any of us were deploying in September. We all got wide-eyed, like ‘OH SHIT! It is September.’ He was like you don’t think so but some of you guys will. Of course I don’t know any company that is deploying in September or even which one I am going to. We all find out where we are going to when we get there.
The gun range for the tanks was awesome. We were even sitting about 50 yards or more from the back of the tanks and we could see the blast wave picking up all the loose dirt on its way to us. The first shot we didn’t see coming. We were just sitting in the bleachers off in our own little worlds and BOOM!!! The blast almost knocked the wind out of us because we didn’t see it coming. It was really something. I got some video of both the day shot and the night shot. I mainly want to take some frames out of them to use at pictures because some of the ‘audio’ in them isn’t the best because Marines who never matured since high school were all around me.
Sadly enough I think I will have a bit of hell for the next three years because I have nothing but those kinds of Marines around me 24/7. That really isn’t the kind of person I enjoy being or being around. I noticed that I even say the ‘F’ word more now-a-days when I am around them. I chewed out a Marine for using that kind of language in the airport today, this marine went through Parris Island and always brags about it being better. I told him that in San Diego they at least teach us to be polite and avoid that kind of stuff when civilians are around. Though I don’t like people being like that at all, I barely would get even worse than saying heck before I joined.
Thinking about this makes me think of what Sgt. Trader said to me that I don’t really seem like the kind of person for this field because I act like a higher class person then everyone there, like I have had a very sheltered life. I have had a little bit of one in some parts of my life but not in all of it, trust me I have had me own show of troubles. Some things that I talk about but some of it I sadly cant say to anyone. Well because of the way I act and how I know about computers he thought I should probably be Intel but oh well.
At least thinking about were I am going I should have a little bit of an easier time. I have a good friend from boot camp there in 29 palms. I would have to say that because of the way things have been going it will be good to have a good friend like him around. I would have to say right now he will be my close-by best friend while I am there and Tess has really been the closest thing to a best friend I have had for a while. Even better friend than I have had from Lisa and Jenn. Even though I know I have put her through hell here and there because of our past but with how she is more into forgiving has taught me how to be.
She has shown me that it is better to understand that at times it when some chooses are made that then seem right even though they aren’t. That a person who realizes that and learns from it can be a better friend in the long run than someone who doesn’t grow and learn as time goes on. I want to say that the kind of friend I want is one that is completely okay with being bluntly truthful with me and doesn’t mind me being the same sometimes. That understands that I may get a little mad but will at least step back and think about what they said and will do the same when I say something. Though in the end, will still be able to talk to me as if nothing happened or not. Basically, I want a friend through thick and thin.
Well if you have read this far you must have been very bored or I am a better writer then I think I am.
Well I have been asked about my legs quite a bit lately. They have been doing good and I have been grateful for that because the Sergeants haven’t given me any grief about it because I still do all I can do without complaining. I figure that means more than sitting on the side line doing nothing. If something is too much for me I am not afraid to ask for someone to help me which makes it a lot easier. I just don’t know how it will go over when I get to 29 palms with them getting a ‘broken’ marine out of MOS school.
The gun range for the tanks was awesome. We were even sitting about 50 yards or more from the back of the tanks and we could see the blast wave picking up all the loose dirt on its way to us. The first shot we didn’t see coming. We were just sitting in the bleachers off in our own little worlds and BOOM!!! The blast almost knocked the wind out of us because we didn’t see it coming. It was really something. I got some video of both the day shot and the night shot. I mainly want to take some frames out of them to use at pictures because some of the ‘audio’ in them isn’t the best because Marines who never matured since high school were all around me.
Sadly enough I think I will have a bit of hell for the next three years because I have nothing but those kinds of Marines around me 24/7. That really isn’t the kind of person I enjoy being or being around. I noticed that I even say the ‘F’ word more now-a-days when I am around them. I chewed out a Marine for using that kind of language in the airport today, this marine went through Parris Island and always brags about it being better. I told him that in San Diego they at least teach us to be polite and avoid that kind of stuff when civilians are around. Though I don’t like people being like that at all, I barely would get even worse than saying heck before I joined.
Thinking about this makes me think of what Sgt. Trader said to me that I don’t really seem like the kind of person for this field because I act like a higher class person then everyone there, like I have had a very sheltered life. I have had a little bit of one in some parts of my life but not in all of it, trust me I have had me own show of troubles. Some things that I talk about but some of it I sadly cant say to anyone. Well because of the way I act and how I know about computers he thought I should probably be Intel but oh well.
At least thinking about were I am going I should have a little bit of an easier time. I have a good friend from boot camp there in 29 palms. I would have to say that because of the way things have been going it will be good to have a good friend like him around. I would have to say right now he will be my close-by best friend while I am there and Tess has really been the closest thing to a best friend I have had for a while. Even better friend than I have had from Lisa and Jenn. Even though I know I have put her through hell here and there because of our past but with how she is more into forgiving has taught me how to be.
She has shown me that it is better to understand that at times it when some chooses are made that then seem right even though they aren’t. That a person who realizes that and learns from it can be a better friend in the long run than someone who doesn’t grow and learn as time goes on. I want to say that the kind of friend I want is one that is completely okay with being bluntly truthful with me and doesn’t mind me being the same sometimes. That understands that I may get a little mad but will at least step back and think about what they said and will do the same when I say something. Though in the end, will still be able to talk to me as if nothing happened or not. Basically, I want a friend through thick and thin.
Well if you have read this far you must have been very bored or I am a better writer then I think I am.
Well I have been asked about my legs quite a bit lately. They have been doing good and I have been grateful for that because the Sergeants haven’t given me any grief about it because I still do all I can do without complaining. I figure that means more than sitting on the side line doing nothing. If something is too much for me I am not afraid to ask for someone to help me which makes it a lot easier. I just don’t know how it will go over when I get to 29 palms with them getting a ‘broken’ marine out of MOS school.