It’s the journey, not the destination. Right?
July 15, 2008 at 8:44 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentTags: Gulfport, Iraq, Navy, NMPS, Singapore
Day 1 of NMPS:
Gulfport is hot as heck… and humid!
That ever so popular military motto you hear all the time, “Hurry up and wait…” has never been more true than going through this process! Most of the stuff we did today doesn’t really seem to have accomplished anything.
The biggest step forward was the issuing of our uniforms for deployment. Apparently everyone going over there now is issued ACUs, which is the Army’s uniform, and so we got those.
The whole team (myself and 5 others) went out to dinner tonight and have been sticking together, of course. I’m beginning to get my excitement back. I have a lot of confidence in these people, even after only having know most of them for 4 days.
It’s great to have Vee going with me. We’re the only 2 girls, and since we worked together the whole time I was on Diego it makes me feel better about the whole thing.
Jason, my stepfather, left for Afghanistan today. He left before me and he’ll return long after I’m already home. That’s whats so fucked up about the Army. It doesn’t even really seem like they care about their soldiers sometimes, just sending the same people over and over again. But at the same time, it is the job we all signed up for. (In a sense.)
Much more than myself, I am worried about him. And Justin. Since Justin is combat camera he’ll be out in the field a lot more than I will. It’s kind of cool that we’re deploying at the same time, I just wish that he wasn’t.
We have so many hopes and dreams together, I can’t imagine not having him, but these are the things you can’t help worrying about when you’re going away to a war zone.
Things should get a lot more interesting, especially next week when we begin our actual weapons and combat training. I’ll keep you all posted…
Oh and there is a blog to come about my awesome stay in Singapore this past weekend… I have a new favorite city! 
- I loved Singapore!
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