February 15, 2009

Sorry that it’s been a while, the past few days have been pretty bad. Today was much better though and I’m certain that things will be great after we start hitting ports. Yesterday evening I had a talk with someone who is an E-5 and he tries to look out for the lower guys like me. He was telling me that I was a really hard worker and that if I keep on stroking (that’s our term for working hard) the way I do and it will pay off. The bad part is that you just have to go through the b/s to get there everyone goes through it so it is what it is. It was nice to see that someone notices that I’m trying so that lifted my spirits a little bit. The food has been decent the past few days, I don’t know what the occasion is but I’m not complaining. Tell everyone I said hello.