Helloo everyonee,
I just graduated from Basic Mechanical School, and I start my next school monday morning first thing which is Advanced technical training. It's completely self-paced, on the computer. If you take it on schedule everyday it takes about 3 weeks to finish everything. But I'm definately going to try to finish quicker so I can graduate and get the heck out of here and on to my final school down in King's Bay, Georgia. I'm doing pretty well up here, we have 8 people that is quarentined because they have swine flu, so the base is being extremely cautious about everything. I hope everything is going well for everyone, haven't heard anything from anyone, way to communicate guys! :P
I bought Tony's old Kia last weekend, it's a big help having a car on base, make a bunch of money taking friends to the mall and stuff since the taxi ride out there is expensive. And been havin a lot of fun going up to Providence, and to NY. Hopefully goin to try to get out to Boston before I head to Georgia, maybe even for a Red Sox game. Bunch of people havent' ever been to Boston so they want to go, bunch of them are coming down to Georgia with me so they want to go before they leave as well. Got a lot of friends on base that know ALOT about cars which is good with all the driving I've been doing lately.
So far at least one of my instructors from every school i've been in has tried to imitate my voice, it's pretty funny. They get a kick out of it. And I am the kick ball champion hahaha. For PT in the morning we've been playing kick ball, and I've been kicking ass. I'm very proud about that haha.
Send me some emails people or something, I wanna hear what's going on in the family, we have a big family I'd like to know what's going on. I'm gonna start updating a lot more on here, especially has i get down to Georgia.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
It's been awhile
Hey everyonee,
It's been awhile since I last updated this, I've been really busy with school stuff during the weekdays, then going home on the weekends. Had a crazyyyy memorial day weekend. Still recovering from it. Well the school that i'm in now called BMS (Basic mechanical Skills) is super easy, it's only about 3 weeks long. Then I got to ATT, which i forget what it stands for.
Right now I'm in my room doing nothing because I went to medical today and I'm SIQ (Sick In Quarters) because I have a virul infection in my sinuses. Major sinus headaches and coughing up a lung. But now i have drugs and I get to sleep allll day :). So it's all good.
I just bought Tony's old car, which was a great deal, real helpful around base, saves a lot of money since taxi's to go anywhere here is wayyy expensive. Other then that nothing is really new, same stuff, different day. I'm gonna go back to sleep, I'll update in more detail some other time.
love everyone.
It's been awhile since I last updated this, I've been really busy with school stuff during the weekdays, then going home on the weekends. Had a crazyyyy memorial day weekend. Still recovering from it. Well the school that i'm in now called BMS (Basic mechanical Skills) is super easy, it's only about 3 weeks long. Then I got to ATT, which i forget what it stands for.
Right now I'm in my room doing nothing because I went to medical today and I'm SIQ (Sick In Quarters) because I have a virul infection in my sinuses. Major sinus headaches and coughing up a lung. But now i have drugs and I get to sleep allll day :). So it's all good.
I just bought Tony's old car, which was a great deal, real helpful around base, saves a lot of money since taxi's to go anywhere here is wayyy expensive. Other then that nothing is really new, same stuff, different day. I'm gonna go back to sleep, I'll update in more detail some other time.
love everyone.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Go NCIS
Hey everyone,
I'm reporting from my barracks room on this rainy day here in Groton, CT. I just got internet and TV here the other day. My roommate actually got it installed. So I decided to go out and buy a wireless router for the room. This weekend has been pretty crappy, but yesterday I went out to see Wolverine, which was AWESOMEEEEE!!!!! :D
I've been looking at the NCIS website and I'm definately going to try and be a NCIS Special Agent. And with my schedule on a submarine with being 3 months in and 3 months out i'll be able to work on my criminology degree. I found out that it's a requirement to just have a bach. degree. Doesn't matter if it's criminology degree. But I figured I'd go for a criminology degree since it'll make it much easier when I'm trying to to be a Special Agent. And another requirement is to be able to have a background check which i'll already have from the Navy since I'm working on getting the highest possible clearance. Plus, I'll be qualified in all the weapons. So as long as I stay in shape it should be easy for me to get into. I want to do this because I want to be able to come home and be proud of my job. I want to make a difference in the world. :) Plus I want to catch those sailors and marines that decide to dessert their country. lol I know I just want to be some badass. Oh well.
Well back to studying. Gotta keep my average looking good :). I'll update soon.
I'm reporting from my barracks room on this rainy day here in Groton, CT. I just got internet and TV here the other day. My roommate actually got it installed. So I decided to go out and buy a wireless router for the room. This weekend has been pretty crappy, but yesterday I went out to see Wolverine, which was AWESOMEEEEE!!!!! :D
I've been looking at the NCIS website and I'm definately going to try and be a NCIS Special Agent. And with my schedule on a submarine with being 3 months in and 3 months out i'll be able to work on my criminology degree. I found out that it's a requirement to just have a bach. degree. Doesn't matter if it's criminology degree. But I figured I'd go for a criminology degree since it'll make it much easier when I'm trying to to be a Special Agent. And another requirement is to be able to have a background check which i'll already have from the Navy since I'm working on getting the highest possible clearance. Plus, I'll be qualified in all the weapons. So as long as I stay in shape it should be easy for me to get into. I want to do this because I want to be able to come home and be proud of my job. I want to make a difference in the world. :) Plus I want to catch those sailors and marines that decide to dessert their country. lol I know I just want to be some badass. Oh well.
Well back to studying. Gotta keep my average looking good :). I'll update soon.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
I'm smart :P
Heyy everyone,
I'm doing awesome right now, I had my first quiz last week and got an 88 on it. Then I had my first test today and got a 90. I'm so relieved. I stayed up all night last night helping my friend type up all my notes on my laptop because someone jacked his notebook so we were writing everything up for him the last two days so he is able to study. Then, we decided just to stay up the rest of the night to study together and we both did really well. This is A LOT easier then I thought it would be. I know once I start my actual schools for my job that it'll be harder but still this is super easy :). Don't worry I'm not going to slack off just because I did well on this two examinations.
I'm going to be talking to the Career Counselor and talk to them about different ways to get into CTT (Cryptology Technician), NCIS, and Navy Special Tactical Swat team. I was interested in CTT because they are stationed everywhere, on an Airplane, in a Sub, on a Destroyer, aircraft carrier. They can be put anywhere. And the two others I just would love to do something like that. Also, I found out that they do have a Soccer team and you play a couple long tournaments, but I won't worry about that until I'm out in the fleet since I wouldn't be able to go anywhere due to still being in school. I also might check out their volleyball team as well.
I was talking to my friend Edwards from boot camp today and he's just got his orders, and he's being stationed at Bangor, Washington. Which is one of the two bases that I could be stationed at, it's that one or King's bay, Georgia. I was thinking of being stationed at Bangor already because their base is much better, and there's not as much to do around king's bay. I'm pretty excited.
Love you all.
I'm doing awesome right now, I had my first quiz last week and got an 88 on it. Then I had my first test today and got a 90. I'm so relieved. I stayed up all night last night helping my friend type up all my notes on my laptop because someone jacked his notebook so we were writing everything up for him the last two days so he is able to study. Then, we decided just to stay up the rest of the night to study together and we both did really well. This is A LOT easier then I thought it would be. I know once I start my actual schools for my job that it'll be harder but still this is super easy :). Don't worry I'm not going to slack off just because I did well on this two examinations.
I'm going to be talking to the Career Counselor and talk to them about different ways to get into CTT (Cryptology Technician), NCIS, and Navy Special Tactical Swat team. I was interested in CTT because they are stationed everywhere, on an Airplane, in a Sub, on a Destroyer, aircraft carrier. They can be put anywhere. And the two others I just would love to do something like that. Also, I found out that they do have a Soccer team and you play a couple long tournaments, but I won't worry about that until I'm out in the fleet since I wouldn't be able to go anywhere due to still being in school. I also might check out their volleyball team as well.
I was talking to my friend Edwards from boot camp today and he's just got his orders, and he's being stationed at Bangor, Washington. Which is one of the two bases that I could be stationed at, it's that one or King's bay, Georgia. I was thinking of being stationed at Bangor already because their base is much better, and there's not as much to do around king's bay. I'm pretty excited.
Love you all.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Hangin in there..
Hey everyone, sorry I haven't updated in awhile.. Tony reminded me i should haha. I've been busy and sometimes it's hard to get on a computer since a lot of times they are all taken. But I got out of class early, had a long finance class, it was pretty interesting. I'm on the computer right now watching 24. Hulu.com and the main tv websites are awesome lol. I can't wait to have my laptop and be able to watch move shows that I can't get on my phone. The only problem is that they don't go back that far so I can't watch the shows that I missed all through boot camp and stuff. Oh well, it's better then nothing. I'm doing well, I had duty last night, had about 2 hours of sleep last night, but suprisingly i'm very awake lol. Finally finished all my qualifications I had to do for all these watches. It was easy, but so annoyingg. But once again it's all a part of my job. I'll be able to wear civilian clothes again this weekend when I start my phase 2 liberty, and I can stay out until midnight. Also, one of my buddies Class leaders has a really nice Eclipse and he told him that some weekend if we want to borrow it to go out to providence or something we could. That's awesome, it's a nice tricked out Eclipse that he'll just let us borrow. Don't worry we aren't going to do anything stupid I won't let that happen!! :D.
Well for the people that don't know, I was playing basketball and went up for a rebound and landed on my foot wrong and then had two people land on it one after the other. Went to the emergency room, got x-rays taken, said it wasn't broken, just a bad sprain or could be something torn. Then I went to the sub-base health clinic and the doctor there was looking at my foot and he said there's no way the emergency room got this right, it has to be broken. So they ordered another set of xrays. The doctor came in and told me it's really not broken, i don't know how you did it but it's not broken. So, I've been in a stupid boot and on crutches for the last week and two days. Starting to be able to walk in tennis shoes finally. All the collisions in soccer as a goalie never have any real injuries, and then playing a little basketball I screw up my foot pretty bad. The left top of my foot is seriously swollen still, but the black and blue has finally gone away.
Well I don't know what else to say. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm hanging in there, i should be off my crutches soon and back to working out like crazy again. Thanks for the support everyone.... Mom hope you feel better! Hope you had a good birthday. Tony hope you have a good birthday as well. Both of you will be getting something in the mail soon, I get paid tomorrow :).
Well for the people that don't know, I was playing basketball and went up for a rebound and landed on my foot wrong and then had two people land on it one after the other. Went to the emergency room, got x-rays taken, said it wasn't broken, just a bad sprain or could be something torn. Then I went to the sub-base health clinic and the doctor there was looking at my foot and he said there's no way the emergency room got this right, it has to be broken. So they ordered another set of xrays. The doctor came in and told me it's really not broken, i don't know how you did it but it's not broken. So, I've been in a stupid boot and on crutches for the last week and two days. Starting to be able to walk in tennis shoes finally. All the collisions in soccer as a goalie never have any real injuries, and then playing a little basketball I screw up my foot pretty bad. The left top of my foot is seriously swollen still, but the black and blue has finally gone away.
Well I don't know what else to say. Hope everyone is doing well. I'm hanging in there, i should be off my crutches soon and back to working out like crazy again. Thanks for the support everyone.... Mom hope you feel better! Hope you had a good birthday. Tony hope you have a good birthday as well. Both of you will be getting something in the mail soon, I get paid tomorrow :).
Saturday, March 28, 2009
After boot camp
Hey everyone, I'm finally out of boot camp. 9 weeks of oh so much fun. HA. It looks like my google account got hacked so everything got deleted, so I made a new blog as well as made a new email address.
I don't know who has heard but I'm now a Missle Tech, and I will be stationed on submarines, which my kind of submarines will never hit port. But it'll be a very interesting expeirence and I'm excited to start my new career. It's crazy because I came in as a spec ops guy, and now i'm going onto a submarine. Yes, everyone can make submariner jokes, like the most popular one 100 sailors go down and 50 couples come up. One of my RDC's (Recruit Division Commanders) is a submariner so I heard a lot of them already. Chris and Tony I'm waiting to hear some good ones out of you, lol.
Boot Camp was an interesting experience, it was lots and lots of B.S. but it's all to start changing us from stupid civ's to United States Navy Sailors. I was in the Division 817 which is made up of all Spec-Ops, after 3 1/2 weeks I had to get transferred to Division 125 because I DOR'ed (Drop On Request) due to tendonitis in my knee and my shoulder, and the doctor gave me a choice of a 30 LLD (light limited Duty) or a medical disqualify. Neither of which I wanted to do. So I decided to drop, and in two years if I feel I can do it I could volunteer for Spec-Ops again. But as of right now I have plenty of different ideas to do when I'm done with submarines. Unless I just enjoy being on a big pp hundreds of feet under the sea. HA.
I met this one guy from my new division Edwards. He was part of the Florida State S.W.A.T. team. He's going in as an MA (Master at Arms) which is the Navy's security force. They also have a K-9 Unit, a drug enforcment team, as well as a terrorist unit. Which is right up his alley cause he's a little crazy in the head. I enjoyed making fun of his accent though lol, he's from south Alabama. Reallll southerner kid.
Well right now I'm in Groton, CT which is the finest and biggest submarine base in the world. I just got here yesterday. I don't know much about the area quite yet. I start basic submarine school probably next week because I gotta do all the stupid paperwork. I'll be in school for about 9-10 months total. Not bad, I get a nice promotion when I finish everything.
I'm in this little sports bar kind of thing on base which has computer access, some pool tables, and it's attached to this pizza place and a bowling alley, it's pretty cool. It's probably crazy during big games and especially football season because they have this big screen TV with couches surrounding it.
Well that's all I have for now, I'll probably be updating here every once in awhile since i won't be that busy yet.
I don't know who has heard but I'm now a Missle Tech, and I will be stationed on submarines, which my kind of submarines will never hit port. But it'll be a very interesting expeirence and I'm excited to start my new career. It's crazy because I came in as a spec ops guy, and now i'm going onto a submarine. Yes, everyone can make submariner jokes, like the most popular one 100 sailors go down and 50 couples come up. One of my RDC's (Recruit Division Commanders) is a submariner so I heard a lot of them already. Chris and Tony I'm waiting to hear some good ones out of you, lol.
Boot Camp was an interesting experience, it was lots and lots of B.S. but it's all to start changing us from stupid civ's to United States Navy Sailors. I was in the Division 817 which is made up of all Spec-Ops, after 3 1/2 weeks I had to get transferred to Division 125 because I DOR'ed (Drop On Request) due to tendonitis in my knee and my shoulder, and the doctor gave me a choice of a 30 LLD (light limited Duty) or a medical disqualify. Neither of which I wanted to do. So I decided to drop, and in two years if I feel I can do it I could volunteer for Spec-Ops again. But as of right now I have plenty of different ideas to do when I'm done with submarines. Unless I just enjoy being on a big pp hundreds of feet under the sea. HA.
I met this one guy from my new division Edwards. He was part of the Florida State S.W.A.T. team. He's going in as an MA (Master at Arms) which is the Navy's security force. They also have a K-9 Unit, a drug enforcment team, as well as a terrorist unit. Which is right up his alley cause he's a little crazy in the head. I enjoyed making fun of his accent though lol, he's from south Alabama. Reallll southerner kid.
Well right now I'm in Groton, CT which is the finest and biggest submarine base in the world. I just got here yesterday. I don't know much about the area quite yet. I start basic submarine school probably next week because I gotta do all the stupid paperwork. I'll be in school for about 9-10 months total. Not bad, I get a nice promotion when I finish everything.
I'm in this little sports bar kind of thing on base which has computer access, some pool tables, and it's attached to this pizza place and a bowling alley, it's pretty cool. It's probably crazy during big games and especially football season because they have this big screen TV with couches surrounding it.
Well that's all I have for now, I'll probably be updating here every once in awhile since i won't be that busy yet.
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