Being A Marine

Part 8

Part 8

As you guys know, I am going over seas. And before you go over seas you need to go through a process at medical. There are two parts to it. I've already done the first part and for the first part I just got a bunch of shots. THREE FREAKING SHOTS. One on one arm, one on the other and one in my forearm just under the skin, and it like bubbled up, it was so creepy.

     Also, when you go over seas, sometimes you stay behind at your school house longer than you'd like. So you're whole class will graduate and leave the same day or like the next day, and you'll be the only one who wouldn't leave for 4 days to weeks later. Depends. I've known people who stayed a whole extra month, I'm not sure why.

weeks later. . .

    UPDATE!! what's up guys! so on 20190618 I had finally started my journey to japan! And arrived safely on 20190620 (this weird dating thing is military format. This is how the military dates their things. It goes by yy/mm/dd). So for me, I arrived on Okinawa :) and made my way over to a base called foster.

     I slept all the way through my trip to japan, and I was totally a nervous wreck. I was so scared I wasn't going to be able to read the signs because- hello- it's Japanese! but everything went well because I asked around a lot and people surprisingly knew English pretty well so all was well.

Now, after enduring painstakingly long classes that you constantly get over and over in the marine corps, I had started my job a week after. Which isn't so bad!

now there is definitely a lot of things in school that they don't teach you about your job, they certainly left a lot of things out so I am always taking plenty of notes during my training. but other than that, the people in my shop are nice, I guess. I went to school with one of them, a PFC, and the other dude is a Lcpl like me, he is kind of weird and nerdy in a good way. You can tell he's nerdy just by the way he looks and talks haha. The other one is a female, a CPL. She's really nice, and she's not one of those asshole Corporals that ask you to stand at parade rest when you're talking to them and use proper greetings of the day when you see them. Next is a Ssgt, he's really smart and strict, goes by the book. Kind of sounds like Dave from Alvin and the chipmunks, and is kind of scary. He scolded me once for not remembering a phone number after telling me three times like I'm sorry??? It usually takes two days for me to remember someones phone number first of all, and second I know nothing about this country I decided to go to, so I don't know the area code or anything SO. I was totally salty that day he scolded me but It's whatever. It's just a phone number.  And then There is GySgt. . . I really don't have anything to say about him. He is really quite and socially awkward, and he also never seems to be around when you need him most. People in the shop who have obviously worked there longer than I have, seem to always be seeking assistance on things from elsewhere because GySgt isn't around. 

I'll just do a quick summary on my job! I basically track gear for the squadrons, and the MAG. We trash gear we don't use, we hand out gear to the squadrons, etc. And that is all I do. Sounds kind of boring right? 

Well, talk to ya'll next time! sorry for any terrible grammar or punctuation, I suck at writing. 

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