…Glad That’s Over


It’s been a hellish week in my world, and I’m glad it’s over.  I’ve got so many different and varied issues at work that it’s difficult to keep track of them all, even with my trusty dry erase board.  Just to rattle off a few topics I’ve been dealing with concerning my Marines and others:

-remedial promotion

-applications for housing off base

-five fitness reports

-two inspections

-one huge powerpoint presentation that should be a word document (not my call)

-short timeline deployment

-clearance issues

-three awards

-one promotion

-counting the pieces of a few million dollars worth of equipment

-I’m gonna stop here.  This is getting depressing.

Next week shows some promise of letting up, but some new things are going to surface as we’re being inspected by higher headquarters.  Geez, I should have gone back to the desert.

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Written by:
Teddy
Posted on:
March 2, 2007 at 6:56 pm

So, details… you end your contract and grab a promotion out of the deal? What awards did you snag? I’m sure if you took the time to elaborate a bit, there’d be a person or two who’d be interested in reading. Carry on.:)

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Written by:
Jeff Barnett
Posted on:
March 2, 2007 at 8:37 pm

Teddy,
Those are issues I deal with concerning my Marines, not me. If I only had to fix my own problems I’d spend most of my day playing Minesweeper.

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Written by:
Ralph Dagza
Posted on:
March 3, 2007 at 4:09 am

Im going to bootcamp on the 19th

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Jim
Posted on:
March 3, 2007 at 4:50 am

“Back to the desert”, I don’t think so.

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Written by:
Jeff Barnett
Posted on:
March 3, 2007 at 10:14 am

Jim, if you’ve been deployed I’m sure you’ll agree that sometimes garrison life is much more stressful than deployed life. While much more dangerous, things are much simpler in Iraq. Perhaps more importantly, there aren’t many ways for Marines to get in trouble while deployed, allowing you to concentrate 100% on the mission. At least getting shot at seems worthwhile. Solving administrative problems is like pissing your pants in a dark suit. It gives you a warm feeling, but nobody notices.

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Written by:
David Rupp
Posted on:
March 3, 2007 at 5:55 pm

God Speed My Friend

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Written by:
Randi
Posted on:
March 5, 2007 at 6:25 am

I know someone who felt like you, who’d rather be in the sandbox than back home. He was stuck on recruiting duty……said he’d take the sandbox over the recruiting duty any day of the week so he didn’t have to deal with…what’s the word I’m looking for….oh, being mico-managed all the time.

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MarmaladeBoy
Posted on:
March 6, 2007 at 6:28 am

Man, all my sympathies… all my respect for the military, but a government-run bureaucracy is a government-run bureaucracy, so I’ve got nothing but sympathy for those who must navigate it. I remember all the effort it took just to get a few sentence-long letter from the Army saying “Hi, we’re the Army and yes, he tried to join us but had health problems, and he wasn’t spending the last few months on the street selling crack and punching babies” when prospective employers kept having issues with me having been unemployed for 8 months.

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Written by:
robert scheffler
Posted on:
March 7, 2007 at 1:15 pm

Hi Jeff. I’m working with a magazine writer, trying to track down some info. about life at Camp Victory. He was told there are 3 gyms, and more than one DFAC– true? Thanks for your help.

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Written by:
Tessa Swensen
Posted on:
March 14, 2007 at 10:12 am

Jeff, hopefully you won’t mind answering my naive question~I have no military experience, but I worry about all the guys signed up to make American military as effective as possible. While in the “sandbox”, where do the guys find a tolerable place to sleep and hopefully revitalize enough to handle the next day? Tessa in Minnesota

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lonnie taylor
Posted on:
March 22, 2007 at 10:51 am

Think you for your service& think you for for the job you have done and continue to do. SSg Lonnie Taylor

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Written by:
Lisa
Posted on:
March 27, 2007 at 7:01 pm

My brother is going to Baghdad in Aug. I support him but I am losing sleep and have bad dreams about him going out there. My family is very close, I have two older brothers and they are my life. I am scared to death.

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300 PFT
Posted on:
April 18, 2007 at 10:19 pm

If you need to get those fitness reports done quickly you can do so here:

http://usmc.pftcalculator.com