I have some important news class... I have my orders and no longer care about you-STG1 Polster

I have graduated A-school! I'd like to take this moment to thank the academy, my family, kevin cosnter and of course god. I am now officially an STG :)

It was a long 9-weeks, full of sitting around doing nothing, smashing my head against walls in frustration and close to just punting a baby off the Coronado bridge. But it is over! And now....after much anticipation and preparation, I am beginning my C-school...wait...whats that? No C-school orders for anyone right now??. Ok let me retry that, after much preparation and anticipation, I am back on Holds :( Well while waiting for C-school I should mention the stupidity of this system. Instead of giving us a preference in what C-school we want, we are told what we will get. Now I think to myself, "this system has some flaws, someone such as myself may want a specific system and only that system" And if im not given any preference, this could lead to some disgruntled people. Keep your fingers crossed that I make it into the Frigate C-school, I know I am praying for it!!

Bah, oh well such is life, A-School was a trip, my instructor could not have been any better, he was a funny man, and he cared about whether or not we understood the material he was presenting to us. Albeit deluded in his choice of sport teams, but no one is perfect, and luckily I was in an A-School class with a group of people for the most part who I didn't want to kill. So that was Awesome and all that jazz, not to much head butting going on in there. (PS. Ash Kelly you should have been here and not in Alaska!) A-school PT also sucked! Stg1 Harvell ran it like he had a chip on his shoulder the entire time, kicked our asses up and down, but I always left PT feeling pretty good haha.

Lets see, besides A-school what else has happened since I last updated you all...oh yes, I turned 20! The most worthless age of them all, one year closer to being able to drink but still in that age group between 18-21 where people just kind of feel bad for you. For my birthday my lovely grandmother sent me candy, and a massive box of brownies rest assured my work outs intensified for a few weeks. My girlfriend rebecca surprised me with a game boy ds which was freaking sweet, and to put the cherry on the ice cream my mom sent me a digital camera!! And it arrived just in time for me to take to the Padres game I attended.


(seats at padres game)

I went with my bootcamp buddy Kruse and A-school buddy Barnett (who is as old as the dirt the dinosaurs walked on) It was a great game and good night overall and I was glad to have people to spend it with being 2000 miles from home!



Coming up at the end of November my lovely lady rebecca will be joining me for a week out in san diego :) :) and i can't wait to take her all over the city and show her around it will be a blast :) You can expect my next update around then!!

I miss everyone at home and can't wait to be back home!



Also God may be awesome, but this church's spelling definitely wasn't!

Hurry up....now wait.

So after my few months in Great lakes and being rushed through a technical school I really didn't need to attend I am still sitting on hold over a month later in San Diego. Hurry up and wait at its finest. Its not that bad really to wait here I mean every day I can go to the beach and relax (and once my laundry is done I will be doing just that) its the sheer irony that the Military gives us these things called orders of where we are suppose to be and when we are to start doing what we are paid to do there. Only to arrive at that location and be told "No, you probably won't start for another month" I had to fight with all my urge to not look at them and say why the **** was I rushed here!? Oh well it is what it is I suppose. At the current rate I should, should being the keyword here, class up the next set which is about 2 weeks after this coming Monday, which by the way, will be essentially 1 month from the date I was SUPPOSE to start school.

Other news, this coming week I will finally have my Xbox :D and I am now a proud Phase 3 hold student which basically means I can come and go as I please as long as I show up for duty and show up in the morning at holds. Pretty simple guide lines. Other than that nothing really of interest has been going on for me, my daily routine has turned into one of wake up, go to holds, pt, shower, do what ever I want...rinse and repeat the next day.

At least I am being paid for this so I cant complain to much.

San Diego, the locals say it means Whales Vagina...

Good News Everybody! Im In San Diego!


Yes it looks like that every day. (ive been on the bridge too and yes there are a bunch of sail boats just chilling there)


So I have arrived in San Diego! Go me, no more Midwest! No More Chicago! :D The base here is a miniture base, its one of like...5 navy bases with in 30 minutes of each other lol, anyway, it take aboust 5 minutes to walk the entire base from end to the other. The base is so much more relaxed than Great Lakes too, no liberty buddies, no signing in and out, just show up on time and you are good to go :). I have my own room, no roomate, community showers but I will survive and the guy who sets up the internet is just down the hall from me! The galley here is very small so they have the Chiefs and Officers eat in the same area as us simpletons, so we get the good food. Its not from goodwill either its all the CS's trying to impress the chiefs for promotions so we get the good grub. The Base is right on the exit of the Bay so we see all of the ships *besides carriers* leave for deployment so its kind of cool to see what they look like for the first time. The Navy lodge is right on base so if you plan on coming to see me *wink wink nudge nudge becca and family* you wont be far from me :)

Even better? Im a duty driver, in GL you had to be 25 to do that, here you take an NKO class and you get out roving and QD watch, Awesome!

So anyway, on to San Diego, The beaches are ok, they are small in size, but there are many to choose from. I am biased and nothing will hold a candle to the Shore in my eyes, (wildwood new jersey for those of you to unfortunate to visit there) The water is so awesome perfectly clear, really cool freaking Seal Lions will swim right up next to and swim with you here, they are so used to human interaction its just normal for them and come january, theres a beach here where they have their pups its just out of reach for people to bug them but close enough for us to view them.

This is a typical day at the beach in SD.


The city is MASSIVE, ungodly massive I took a 5 hour tour and we didnt even see 1/2 the city there is just so much to see and do! Once I get my laptop out here and my internet set up Ill post an entry with the pictures from the trip but it was pretty sweet. In La Jolla, you can find a War Memorial on the highest point in the city, it was amazing you could see for miles and miles, out the to mountains that seperates San Diego from the Desert.

Hopefully tomorrow I am going to take a tour of the Midway an old Carrier turned museum and a few of the old iron side ships they set up as museums here as well before hitting the beach up. Should be a good day, anyway until later thats all I have! I miss everyone back home and I cant wait to come home again for more than 1 1/2 days! *I have the most amazing mother on earth who drove 18 hours in 2 days to get me and take me home to see my lady and my family before my transfer it was an awesome day and a half and I was so glad I was able to make it home for the 4th of july to spend it with friends and family and of course the love of my life Rebecca :)*Here are just a few snapshots from my fabulous weekend home*


Me N My lady, courtesy of her father or uncle, which one ill never know.


me n my momma at GMA's


me n my bro at gma's


me n my gparents at their house


me n my aunt p.


me becca n michael at gmas


Very happy puppies


starting to calm down....sorta.


Well thats all for now.

Until next time!

-jake

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

Sorry for disappearing I lost (and have yet to aquire) internet in my Barracks room. Its been a good past month or so. While I have been gone my love came up to Chicago to visit me for a weekend :) we spent Friday Saturday and Sunday together it was fantastic! One of the best weekends I have ever had! Since then I have recieved my orders to San Diego!!! To Start STG "A" school one step closer to being done with training and I can not wait! I should finish up ATT here at Great lakes soon which would be marvelous. By soon I mean tomorrow

So far my outlook on Chicago has not changed, except now on top of me disliking the city, the weather here is horrible and disgustingly humid, as I type this in the lounge of the barracks 6301 i am sweating and disgusting and im inside. I thought the humidity in St Louis was crap until I had to get to this place.

Unfortunatly, I can not get any leave between now and san diego but hopefully once I get to san diego and get through my indoc there I can come home for a little bit, as much as I hate Misery, I mean Missouri, I do miss it.


Lets see what else has been going on here, oh how could I forget! Flag Day! On Flag day, here in good old Great Lakes we recreated a flag that was originally done in 1917 here on Base it took 10000 sailors and 8 hours for them to do. So our command decided, what the hell why dont we do this too! and marched 7000 sailors down to Ross field and recreated the human flag, it was actually pretty cool after it was all said and done, just a pain in the ass to do!

Well thats all for now, on a final note Dont buy Ipods, I held out forever and finally broke down and bought an Ipod, literally within 24 hours of purchase (1320) I was at the NEX returning said Ipod at (1320) because it was already dead. I wanted a refund but all they could do was replace it so heres to hoping this one survives, but seriously I hope you burn in a fire Apple.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.”

Duty days suck.

seriously.





ok that is all I got.

"Amor Vincit Omnia"

There's some of you in every bit of me.
So you see, it will always be you and me.
Together forever, and never apart,
Maybe in distance, but never in heart
-
Author unknown.

"Si vis pacem, para bellum"

"If you wish for peace, prepare for war" - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus 390 AD


I think ill start most of my blogs off with a quote I think applies to the soon to be entry. This entry will be about my experience at Bootcamp.




Lets see I arrived in sunny Chicago at about 6pm on February 9th. I lied, there was no sun there was a blizzard and 12 inches of snow coming down. After the 6 hour bus ride from St. Louis to Great lakes I was surprisingly not remotely tired. I was, how do you put it... terrified beyond all belief... yeah that will work. The van holding the 8 of us pulls up and all we see is the grin of an angry petty officer. This is to become the norm for the next 8 weeks, no happy people anywhere just a bunch of guys trying to figure out what the hell is going on and what they have just gotten themselves into.

after 48 hours or so off no sleep, a pair of lost nikes, and a new wardrobe we finally meet our RDC's. She walks out into the middle of the room and lets us all know we are now her property and she wants to break every single one of us. But she had to let us sleep first, best 8 hours of sleep I had ever gotten let me tell you! Over the next few days we got to meet the rest of our RDC's.

Senior Chief
Petty Officer 1st Class
Petty Officer 2nd Class

They let us know the first 5 or so days we were lucky we were not allowed to be worked or forced to do push ups, just getting yelled at. We quickly start forming our own little niches, really just sticking to our corner of the room not wanting to be caught where we weren't supposed to be. All of us thinking, what in the hell did I get myself into, a feeling that doesn't go away quickly btw.

The First days were known as P-Days, and to be honest we were all glad they were done once they were over, shots just suck to get and you get a lot. Our first day out of P-days we have our swim quals, easiest thing ever, not even a lap in the pool you jump in, swim to the other side, and show you know how to do the deadmans float.

That is the only time any of us touched a pool, after that we were done with swimming.

After the first week we had all learned, petty officer 2nd class was no man to be triffled with, he and senior chiefs voice terrified all of us, them walking into the room sucked the air out of us and there was a freaky calm before the storm type ordeal, usually this lead up to us being "IT'd" or intesively trained. and this is where my bootcamp took a left turn from most other peoples, I got a staff job. I was the Division's Laundry man, and when I thought things might be going downhill I ran to my laundry room!

cheap I know, it did rub some people the wrong way, but what the hell I didnt want to be punished for other people, however there were always those times I couldnt get away. (Oh I forgot to mention we were moved from the indoc building two miles to a new building we would call home for 2 months, the USS Hopper it had its own laundry room)

Anyway, so as LPO me and my fellow LPO, a good friend of mine, were responsible for cleaning the entire Divisions laundry, every day of boot. TBH it was the best job we could get, we stayed out of the RDC's sight for the bulk of the day and we were always busy so the long boring days were nothing happened didnt exist for us. Honestly other than that Bootcamp was a breeze, the tests were not hard at all, the classes were all CBT (computer based training) were you would just sit in a room for 4 hours clicking next. The PFA's I could pass with one arm, and teh PT sessions were more stretching than anything. Shooting was fun and firefighting was awesome.

IF I can say anything about bootcamp, you do form bonds with some of the guys there, and you will never forget your RDC's.

Thats all for now

Black actors.

Great Lakes

Well like I had said in my previous entry I am in the Navy. Currently I am at ATT or apprentice technical training. So far my days consist of sitting at a computer and taking notes. Its not that bad really, I stress out so much about it that I stay awake and can't fall asleep haha. The course is designed to give a variety of ratings a backround in circuit boards and how to troubleshoot them how to use multimeters and things like that. Its actually very interesting my only worry is all the math, Im afraid im going to have a math over load lol. ATT takes care of STG's, ET's, FC's, IC's, EM's, GM's, GSE's, and Minemen. I am a hopeful STG.

Great lakes really isn't that bad of a base as some people make it out to be, as long as you keep your mind where it should be and do what you are suppose to you will be fine. If you follow orders, dont drink when you shouldnt and be where you should be, you will be completely fine here. The base is big, but its not that big, from my barracks its about a 15 minute walk to the maingate. Transportation is readily available, and if you make the right friends you can get rides from people all over the town anyway. The town out side the base is kind of a dump, its North Chicago so a lot of it you don't want to travel to anyway. But they do have a massive mall and a train station to take you to chicago for some entertainment! (speaking of entertainment im going to a UFC fight tonight I think wooot).

After ATT, I get to head to San diego for A school, talk about a change from this nasty weather cold town to Sunny san diego for the rest of my training :). After all of my training which should take me until next year some time I imagine, I hope to be able to get orders to an East Coast based ship, either Norfolk, Va or Mayport Fl. Id settle for a Mine ship in texas or a ship in Hawaii. I really dont want to go to the west coast, theres just nothing over there for me, East coast is where the action is now, pirate hunting etc. If I am to be stationed overseas I'd KILL for Greece or Italy.

Well tonight is a UFC match so I think im going to run off for a bit.


Black actors.

The all important intro

Welcome one and all.


I am Jake Weatherford, possibly the most important individual to ever live. And this is Sparta? Is my blog were I will share my life's silly stories with whoever actually reads this thing. To be honest this is just a time waster for me, nothing to important, I'm not trying to change the world through my Ideals because to be honest the world would probably suck if I was running the show.

Lets do a little backround on me, like stated before my name is Jake. What was not stated before is I am a United States Sailor. Which pretty much makes me a bad ass. I am currently residing in Great Lakes, IL. For technical training before heading to my next place of residence, which will be San Diego for A school and C school. For the Navy challenged, A and C school is where I will go to learn my job before I get sent to a ship, and I can not wait! I graduated boot on April 9th 2010, it is May 8th as I type this and just about a month in I can say I am thoroughly enjoying my time here. School sucks, but that's been my bleak out look on school since 6th grade.

Anyway a little more about myself, on September 24th 1990 and date which will live in infamy, I was born. The world hasn't been the same since. Some fun facts about the time I have spent alive, 3 wars have taken place and a sudo-war with the Balkans took place as well. Twice in my life terrorists have attacked the US. Ive seen gas hit 4$ a gallon only to drop to less then 2 a gallon, only to go back up over 3 a gallon. I have been alive for 4 Presidents and 2 Popes. I have seen the rise and the fall of tickle me elmo, furbie, beanie babies, razor scooters, Emo music (well its not gone yet but I can dream), a decade of the Yankees not being important, the self implosion of the US Automakers and the second worst recession in our Nations history. Not all is bad though! I have seen the largest technical growing period in the history of the world, from smart phones, to electric cars, to flat screen tv's, to the Internet explosion and the amazing medical jumps we have taken. 2 cardinal world series wins and the Rise of the Patriots dynasty (and fall)

Sweet time to be alive.

Moving right along, I have live in 2 states, Kentucky while my father was stationed in Fort Campbell Kentucky, and a few other places before we returned to good old Missouri. This is where I call home, if you read above I said great lakes was my place of residence, not my home. As fun as it, the Navy will never be my home, "Home is where the heart is" is a favorite quote of mine spoken long ago by a man named Gaius Plinius Secundus, a Roman Philosopher and Naval/Army commander (I am going to do that a lot by the way, I love history and will quote historical folk often be prepared) and I believe that's true.

Missouri has my family and everything I care about there is no doubt in my mind that I will end up there again. I lived in St. Charles Missouri for along time, and do miss it, in this suburb of St. Louis is a certain lady. This lady happens to be my girlfriend Rebecca Hoffman, now I could spend hours talking about her and go on and on, but I wont do that ill just sum it up really quick. Shes the most amazing person alive.

I have 1 little brother Michael, and 1 older sister Samantha, who graduated college today go sam!, anyway my dads name is Rick and my mom's is Lori. I have 2 dogs, Roxy and Zoey. Roxy is a big black lab and zoey is a small...something. I used to own a Ford Explorer and I loved that truck, I used to work at a KFC as well, were my main amigos Chase and Danny still work hahahaha. I graduated from FHC in 2008 and went to college for a little bit before deciding paying for school is what noobs do, and decided to join the Navy for college, adventure, travel, and money. After I leave the navy when ever that may be I will return to school to become a history techer.

Well thats all I got, Ill update this thing as I see fit, I may make it a fun little past time.

Black actors.