finally finished my third and final round of anthrax vaccinations. these were the shots i started about a month ago that caused so much bitching and moaning from my marines. yes, all of a sudden they became mandatory again...well, mandatory for iraq and korea at least, and they all had to be given out immediately....makes me wonder a bit about the urgency of it all. the whole process was a huge pain in the arse, too! one of my marines turned out to be prego and so i had to send her home. worse yet, i then realized that i had given her her first anthrax shot and she was most likely pregnant at the time! i made sure to ask all the females even if there was a remote chance they were pregnant (even though sex is a no-no out here) and she didn't think she was. i still felt awful. a couple of retarded stragglers left, but it's pretty much done thankfully.
month 4 has arrived, and if i had thought that ppl were getting on each others' nerves at 2 months, man, you should see things now. it's hot, everyone's super annoyed (myself included), and we still have over half the deployment to go. the irony is that our jobs aren't really even that hard. we're not patrolling the streets, we're not kicking down doors, we're not travelling in convoys. we sit behind computers in air conditioned rooms. our "pilots" fly with joysticks while looking at a monitor. we're relatively safe. the one thing that i can give the guys credit for, though, is the rough deployment schedule. 7 mos iraq, 5 months back, year after year. that def takes a toll.
surly j, thanks for posting. great to hear from you! muffin, i read your blog and i'm still jealous. those pics remind me of peru a couple of summers ago. same exact thing. psych j, i can't believe your deployment is almost over. can't wait to hear more gitmo stories.
and that's my room up top. mine's the one on the left with the yellow sheets. it's not bad, and prolly one of the better rooms at the alamo. kinda sad, huh?
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Hey Huy! The digs aren't nearly as bad as I thought they would be. I pictured you having one of 30 cots all lined up in a tent. It's not the Ritz by a long shot, but maybe just reminds you of dorm life?
I had my first house disaster with Ryan gone. We had a pipe leak in the wall. I had to get a plumber out to rip out both sides of the wall, fix it, then replaster everything. Crazy!
Glad to hear you are almost half way done with this. Keep your spirits up, and I think of you everyday. Almost as much as Ryan. :P
Miss you,
Jen
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