Okay so it's offically offical, on April 26th I will take a helo from Bahrain and land in an undisclosed location in Iraq where I will be briefed on my next and new tour while I'm here. I'm taking over for an AG1 who has been on an oil platform for the past 9 months. It's only a temporary assignment, but it's deffinatly one that I'm not really looking forward to. It's a joint operation and I will have a NATO officer in charge so that will be differnt. I've seen the brief that she has to put together and it really doesn't seem that hard, so the issue is going to be what to do with all my extra time. I've been told that I'm strictly out there as a favor and that I'm only to do the METOC portion of everything but as I've been briefed that only takes an hour lol.
They are telling me that it's only going to be for 2 months while I wait for her permenant replacement, but I"m not stupid. The guy I'm waiting for is a Navy Chief and let's face it they never show up on time or do what they are suppose to do which means that I"m going to go ahead and call it now and say that I'll be out there for 4 months...meaning that I will spend yet another birthday thousands of miles away from anyone that I care about only this time I'll be the only person I know.
To make the pit in my stomach grow even more, I've already been told to get my affairs in order. I know it's a precationary messure but still it creeps me out. So tomorrow I have to go and prep my will and update my page 2. Also I asked about what I'm suppose to do with the fact that my TLA is running out and I still don't have a place, and this little detour is going to royally fuck me when I get back, and I was told to go ahead and go apt hunting tomorrow and see if I can't find a place that will hold me a spot and if I can't they are going to try to extend my TLA but on the 26th I have to get all of my stuff out of here and find somewhere to store it til I get back.
I had really thought that I was comfortable and looking forward to a life of solitude, but it's moments like this that I wish I had someone to talk to and of course everytime I try to call someone back home they never pick up. It's a shame that I can't get a hold of anyone! Normally it's the person on deployment that is hard to get in touch with but I have made every attempt to stay in touch with everyone, heck I even downloaded skype which I can't stand, bought and expensive ass phone card and a cheap Nokia phone. Pretty much the only thing I haven't done is take out a tv ad out in the states. Those of you who know me, know that I HATE BEING IGNORED, and even though that might not be the case, it's exactly what it feels like. I would rather you tell me that you didn't want to talk.
As you can tell I have a lot of time here to sit and reflect and I've come to the conclusion that somethings just aren't worth fighting for, therefore I'm not going to anymore.
I would like to thank Leona Lewis for being the soundtrack to this post.
They are telling me that it's only going to be for 2 months while I wait for her permenant replacement, but I"m not stupid. The guy I'm waiting for is a Navy Chief and let's face it they never show up on time or do what they are suppose to do which means that I"m going to go ahead and call it now and say that I'll be out there for 4 months...meaning that I will spend yet another birthday thousands of miles away from anyone that I care about only this time I'll be the only person I know.
To make the pit in my stomach grow even more, I've already been told to get my affairs in order. I know it's a precationary messure but still it creeps me out. So tomorrow I have to go and prep my will and update my page 2. Also I asked about what I'm suppose to do with the fact that my TLA is running out and I still don't have a place, and this little detour is going to royally fuck me when I get back, and I was told to go ahead and go apt hunting tomorrow and see if I can't find a place that will hold me a spot and if I can't they are going to try to extend my TLA but on the 26th I have to get all of my stuff out of here and find somewhere to store it til I get back.
I had really thought that I was comfortable and looking forward to a life of solitude, but it's moments like this that I wish I had someone to talk to and of course everytime I try to call someone back home they never pick up. It's a shame that I can't get a hold of anyone! Normally it's the person on deployment that is hard to get in touch with but I have made every attempt to stay in touch with everyone, heck I even downloaded skype which I can't stand, bought and expensive ass phone card and a cheap Nokia phone. Pretty much the only thing I haven't done is take out a tv ad out in the states. Those of you who know me, know that I HATE BEING IGNORED, and even though that might not be the case, it's exactly what it feels like. I would rather you tell me that you didn't want to talk.
As you can tell I have a lot of time here to sit and reflect and I've come to the conclusion that somethings just aren't worth fighting for, therefore I'm not going to anymore.
I would like to thank Leona Lewis for being the soundtrack to this post.
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