So for as long as I can I'm gonna cross post my blogs from my deployment blog, now titled Home to Afghanistan and Back.
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More Boring Life
Well we've finally finished all our medical and personnel processing. Spent a whole day...started at 0600 Sunday with the urinalysis. Why someone feels the need to give a 10 minute briefing on how to properly piss into a cup while all of us are sitting there with our back teeth about to float away is beyond me.
From there we went in groups to Medical. Physical exams, hearing tests, vision exams...the whole shebang. Got the optometry tech to refer me to the doc...ended up with a new prescription. Should get those in a week or so. After that we went to the next building and got all of our shots...and I mean ALL of them. I left with a total of 9 plus my PPD (TB) test. Anthrax (that's a gel, you have to massage the injection site daily or it'll harden), Hep A/B, H1N1, plus a few others I can't remember. Not everyone got their smallpox vaccine....that'll come later in the week. Met with yet ANOTHER shrink about my mental health (maybe that's a sign). Finally finished that part at 1400...that's right, it took 8 HOURS to finish medical. Must have been all the lines.
After a break for a crappy bagged lunch, we moved onto paperwork. Met with a personnel specialist and went over all my forms, someone from the finance office to make sure I'm getting paid properly, and a sit down with the chaplain to talk about the next year. That part was probably the best of the day...because it took about 5 minutes. It also didn't help that I asked to speak to one of them outside of the readiness processing. Once I finished with the chaplain, I met with someone about my clearance, had my pictures taken for the recovery database (don't ask) and finally turned my records in at 1850....rushed over to get chow before the chow hall closed and finally got back to the barracks and crashed.
The last few days have been spent unloading stuff from our trailers...getting new gear from supply....running battle drills with our squads...sending individual people off to the firing ranges...the big training should start soon. Or at least I hope...I'm running out of movies to watch.
More Boring Life
Well we've finally finished all our medical and personnel processing. Spent a whole day...started at 0600 Sunday with the urinalysis. Why someone feels the need to give a 10 minute briefing on how to properly piss into a cup while all of us are sitting there with our back teeth about to float away is beyond me.
From there we went in groups to Medical. Physical exams, hearing tests, vision exams...the whole shebang. Got the optometry tech to refer me to the doc...ended up with a new prescription. Should get those in a week or so. After that we went to the next building and got all of our shots...and I mean ALL of them. I left with a total of 9 plus my PPD (TB) test. Anthrax (that's a gel, you have to massage the injection site daily or it'll harden), Hep A/B, H1N1, plus a few others I can't remember. Not everyone got their smallpox vaccine....that'll come later in the week. Met with yet ANOTHER shrink about my mental health (maybe that's a sign). Finally finished that part at 1400...that's right, it took 8 HOURS to finish medical. Must have been all the lines.
After a break for a crappy bagged lunch, we moved onto paperwork. Met with a personnel specialist and went over all my forms, someone from the finance office to make sure I'm getting paid properly, and a sit down with the chaplain to talk about the next year. That part was probably the best of the day...because it took about 5 minutes. It also didn't help that I asked to speak to one of them outside of the readiness processing. Once I finished with the chaplain, I met with someone about my clearance, had my pictures taken for the recovery database (don't ask) and finally turned my records in at 1850....rushed over to get chow before the chow hall closed and finally got back to the barracks and crashed.
The last few days have been spent unloading stuff from our trailers...getting new gear from supply....running battle drills with our squads...sending individual people off to the firing ranges...the big training should start soon. Or at least I hope...I'm running out of movies to watch.
I hope that things are otherwise going well, good sir, and I shall make a point of following your other blog.