piratepete

It was broght to my attention that I have seriously been neglecting my journal, both here and on myspace... Granted the last time I updated here was on the 15th, I think that its been since the begining of September if not longer for myspace. With this being the case I'll try and take baby steps to make updating a little more regular. Maybe 1 a week then move it to 2 and then I'll be back to doing this on a regular basis.

Good news, bad news... Well I don't know it there really is any good news except for the fact that I will not be going to the Marines for sea duty. When I was first going through hospital corps school after coming back from the fleet I wouldn't have minded so much. I know that it would terrify my family but its something I have come to terms with long ago. Now is different, I have a met and fallen in love with the most wonderful woman in the world and were a country apart. Trying to keep things going on a regular basis so that we get to spend a little time with eachonther on what seems to be a quarterly basis has been difficult to say the least. I know that its hard on her and it certianly has been difficult for me. Both of our jobs make it so, if not I'm sure that all the crap we both have had to deal with over the last several months would have been an easy fix, one of us would just have to move. Unfortunatly the military does not see things this way. We both have our obligations to our respected countries, and this has been hard on both of us.

Today I had to pick orders, I have to take sea duty since I just came from school and went straight to a shore command. The worst part about a good portion of it is the fact that 90% of all Navy Corpsmen are stationed with the Marines (I just found this out today) so going back to the fleet is more difficult then it had seemed to me earlier in my naval carreer. What I had to choose from was essentially Field Med School (I don't mind this and actually think that it will be good for me) followed by, you guessed it the Marines, or the Marines and even the Marines... I was very fortunate to have our detailer (the guy who fills slots that are tasked in different locatong) found some orders that were not posted to go with a Vessel Board Search and Seizure (VBSS) team, but I'm still going to have to go to Field Med school. The biggest problem is that its not going to coincide with our plans very well for the first bit, and I don't have any idea as to how things will go after that. I don't really know what to make of everything since the orders are kind of vague as to what exactly it is that I would be doing for the next couple years. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will just be doing stuff right off the coast of San Diego that would involve a minimum amount of time at sea, but even then its a sorry substitute for what I would have really wanted to have happened.