Wow, I had to wait an hour for a 10-minute appointment so the doc could sign off on my pre-deployment medical checklist. I need that signature so I can go to another medical appointment to get another signature on another checklist. Once I get that, I then go to yet another appointment to get yet another signature on yet another checklist. Stop the insanity!! Is it really this difficult to go to war??
Cleansing breath....
My Unit Deployment Manager (UDM) issued me all my uniforms and equipment today. Some pretty cool stuff in there: Ruck sack, ballistic goggles, tactical knee and elbow pads, brown underwear (gee, I wonder why they chose that color?!?), a wheeled duffel bag, four complete new uniforms (minus occupational badge...don't ask), steel-toed boots, etc. Man, I should deploy more often!
Physical fitness test (PFT) tomorrow at 0730, then off to the hospital after lunch. I stopped by today to see Igeaux (he's my stand-in while I'm gone). He had a bit of a "deer in the headlights" look to him. I saw Spuds, too. Spuds (Igeaux's team coworker) has pretty much written off having Igeaux around to keep up with his "day job". It's through conversations like these that I realize how much deployments affect more than just the deployer. It leaves me with a twinge of guilt. Deployments are a fact of life nowadays, but I don't like being the cause of someone else having an added workload.
Idol comes on in a few, so I'm gonna go fix my evening snack (stale animal crackers and a tall glass of rich, chocolaty Ovaltine) and cheer for Lee DeWyze. Yes, I'm a huge American Idol fan, so what of it? I'm also a Gleek.
Shut up.
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