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.