Duty days suck.
seriously.
ok that is all I got.
About Me
- jake
- San Diego, California
- Im in the Navy, I love Rebecca and I am a third class petty officer. I am a sonar tech currently in C-school. I really can't wait to go sail the seven seas for a bit. I kinda just like to go with the flow and see what happens.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
"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.
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.
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.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
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.
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.
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.
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