Well, I'm on.

Jul 26, 2007 16:13

Okay, here I am on LiveJournal finally and able to let everyone know how things are going on this wonderful little trip I'm taking.  So far it's been interesting and exhausting. 
    We're starting the day at 0530 and running pretty much through til 2300 before getting any real sack time.  (For those of you non-military types, just subtract 12 hours from the bigger times to figure out what time it is.  0000 is midnight for a hint... :)  Anyway, the training and paperwork process is a bit of a cluster right now and we're not getting the information I need to give to my soldiers about the upcoming training until 2230 to 2300 hours - which means little to no preparation time and a lot of pissed off troops and sergeants because we don't know what to expect.  We push for the info, but it's just not there and that little bit of unpredictability is just a huge pain.  It also means that we really can't get a lot of down time or relaxing done because invariably, as soon as we cut people loose to do something (like go to the gym, px, etc) something will come up and they'll be needed.  (It's already happened once)  Anyway, that leads to frustrations which could easily be alleviated with a simple training schedule.  (Which no one seems to be able to produce).  And now I've just been told I'm off to an Albanian class tonight after chow - which means I need to sign off for now and finish my e-mails and get the computer put away and get going.

See what I mean. *sigh* At least it's an interesting class.  More later.
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