What does it all mean??

I decided to stop and shake the rain off for a few minutes to enlighten you all with a second update. All I can say is what a week! Here in SoCal (southern california) we have had five days of solid rain. Sounds like nothing to my friends from the East Coast, but here on the Left that is A LOT. The courier post even covered it in an article here:

Five Days of Rain in Southern California

One the National Political scene it seems that the Country is finally waking up. I am not sure that the change the people would like is the same change that they sought when electing the big O, an no I don't mean Oprah. I think people are finally realizing that the answer to more effective government is less government. It does feel great to win Ted Kennedy's seat. Specifically that the person who won "Teddy's Seat" will be the vote needed to reject the largest increase in federal government intervention into private citizens lives since the great depression, something the Liberal Lion had worked to fuel for decades.

Well enough politics for now, but it was to big a win to go unmentioned.

I had a request that I specifically lay out what our battlions mission is in order for "my readers" to better understand what I am doing. I will attempt to summarize this as quickly as possible.


I am an Officer in Naval Mobile Contruction Battalion 21. A battalion is made up of approximately 600 people. The mobile aspect means that we can be ready to "mount out" and deploy within 48 hours of a order being recieved. Most important is our contruction mission, meaning we build and we fight. Contruction Batallions, or SeaBees (C-B's), became popular after WWII when the navy recruited contruction workers as enlisted Bees and Engineers and Officers. This is still true today, and the navy prides itself on having the most requested military construction force in the world, the SeaBees.

Our Bees are proficient in Building, Operating Heavy Equipment, Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, and all other types of construction projects. We are also all tactically astute and prepared to defend ourselves to the fullest in order to achieve mission completeness. Most contruction workers don't have to do their job while being shot at, we do and we can!

As an officer I am one of 15 people that oversee the running of the battalion. I say that because the Chiefs really run the Battallion, and without those 45+ Chiefs we would be dead in the water.

Stay tuned for more on my specific duties......

• The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer.
- U.S. Navy Seabees

Almost ready to start week number 2

Wow, it has been a long first week here in Port Hueneme California. The good part is that it is about 75 deg and sunny everyday, no rain, and a big weather event is when there is a 10mph breeze that cools us off to 70 deg. Since we have been here we have been through gear issue, medical and dental check in, and admin check in(pay).





These pictures are of the building that we processed through. Our battalion HQ is located here, as well as berthing(bedrooms/showers) for our sailors. They live about 20 to a large room.

Here are a few pictures of my berthing.





As you can see I have my own room to myself, TV, a fridge, and a nice bathroom. This is the berthing for all chiefs and officers.

One of our first tasks was preparing our troops for a PGI(personal Gear Issue) inspection. Pictured here:



My average day consists of waking up around 430am and working hard until about 9pm. It takes a lot of hard work to coordinate the movements of 500+ personel that are gearing up to go to war. Overall, the situation here is great, other than missing everyone. Thank you for the birthday wishes.

Me and my PGI gear:



I have decided to end each of my posts with a "thought of the week" of sorts.

Qualifications of a Naval Officer
Written by John Paul Jones

It is by no means enough that an officer of the Navy should be a capable mariner. He must be that, of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor.

He should be the soul of tact, patience, justice, firmness, and charity. No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention or be left to pass without its reward, even if the reward is only a word of approval. Conversely, he shouldn’t be blind to a single fault in any subordinate, though at the same time, he should be quick and unfailing to distinguish error from malice, thoughtlessness from incompetence, and well meant shortcoming from heedless or stupid blunder.

In one word, every commander should keep constantly before him this great truth, that to be well obeyed, he must be perfectly esteemed.