WTP - Nutshell

There is a whole lot of downtime here. I arrived on morning of the 29th. After a quick admist brief and weapon turn-in, we're on our own. On the 30th I reported in the morning to clean my weapon and turn it in officially. That took about two hours. Since I didn't have much else to do I took my time scraping carbon off.

The 31st was the actual 'WTP' day. In the morning I turned all my Army issued gear in. I thought it would take forever but it took less than 10 minutes. And it only took that long because I forgot to take some stuff off my IBA. The NAVCENT people here are squared-away. There was another admin brief at 1330 then a three hour group session (with similar rank) to go through the official ppt slides. That session was by far the worst part about WTP because it forces you to stay in a room and listen to people who love the sound of their own voice - especially when they are whining.

The 1st and 2nd were completely off. There weren't any celebrations for New Years but NAVCENT did have a Foosball tournament on the 1st. I didn't go to it however. I used all of my free time to start programming again. Trying to dust off the cobwebs so I'll be ready to get back to work on swtor.

Tomorrow is the last day here. We weigh our gear in the morning then sometime in the afternoon a bus picks us up for customs. From then on we are on lockdown. I'm told they empty out everything for everyone in customs. I mailed a couple of boxes home today to get myself down to one ruck and one backpack.

There are phones and computers. The Navy has a very nice (but small) decompression tent. When those computers are full I head over to the Army MWR tent which is larger but trashed up. I've already spent about $50 at Starbucks. There is a nice gym but I haven't worked out at all. The only thing left on my todo list before I leave is to get a haircut.

I should be back in the states soon.