Enoshima

Outstanding area to visit. I was looking for a lighthouse that was on a map on the train and what do I find but an island with an outstanding view of Mt Fuji. I also went to the lighthouse which was surrounded by a flower garden.

Not too much else going on.

True measure

How can we truly measure our accomplishments at work? How can we measure our accomplishments at home and with other people. Well why should we worry about measuring anything like that. I like to worry more about what is going on and how I can help people better themselves. It is funny because I see my evaluations and see how I was evaluated and everyone can't believe it. Sometimes personal feelings get in the way of the truth. You move on and know that inside Karma does work. Someone above is watching.

Living the dream

I am just sitting here underway living the dream. I truly love this place I get to go to breakfast and than find out that I am staying till lunch. Joyous times.

Things are so boring that I have nothing really to do right now. I should work on my resume and courses that I need for when I retire.

Yes I am going crazy.

Underway halfway

As I sit here I think about how much I love being underway but hate being here sometimes. The command can be irrating but when you are stuck out here with them it makes it worse. No escaping your boss.

The seas have been rough so it has been real fun with that almost walking on walls this morning. Than stupid me recommends that we do a reenlisment on the Foscle and the CO really likes to make sure that people get what they want for reenlistments. Well let's say I got a little saltwater shower this morning. Oh what a joy that was.

I do love my job though, helping people and working with others who help people. A true joy.

Just another underway

Well we are underway again. I used to truly love these times but lately it is more of a chore than anything else.

I am not sure if it is the time or just the job I am dealing with now.

Oh well it is late and I am tired.

Osaka

Oh do I love the Navy and the places I have been. I keep cursing the amount of underway time I have had since I have been in Japan not letting me see anything. Heck I have been to all but one of the island so far and I was hoping to we would go there this winter.

I have been to Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka and Kyoto all the major cities in Japan. What else is there?

Just thought I would say that.

I really should blog more

Ok, I am actually going to talk about today. I really hate doing this just in case some one I work with or knows reads this.

It is funny when someone starts to care and yells you about a problem you have been trying to get fixed for a while. I am like if you actually cared I wouldn't have this problem now. That is the way things go in the Military just wait to they transfer and hope for something better.

The other wonderful time is if you have watched Carrier you know about how people get in trouble and they have to go in front of the Chief's. Well I had to that today since I mentor someone who got in trouble for disrespect. He is a good worker but he needs to learn some respect. I don't get a long with the people he disrespected but I still respect them because of their rank and one of them is my Mentor. You don't have to like someone to respect them and their views on things.

Ok I am done with that part. We had an award ceremony for a pilot and the crew along with the Air Controller who guided them in. The thick and skinny is that they lost gyrostablization control and had to land immediately. Luckily due to fast action they were able to. If not everything we have practiced about helo crashing on deck wouldn't have been in vein. OH YES I am on the team that teaches people how to fight a HELO CRASH.

Which brings me to think about all the CLASS A Mishaps that I have seen or been involved in. CLASS A Mishap is more than a million dollars of damage or loss of life. First there was the flooding of the submarine while we were still submerged, that was fun. Than there was the news report that came out about a month before the accident. Two ships colliding in the middle of the Persian Gulf and luckily the Aircraft Carrier was in not in the proper set up. For some reason they had their evelators down when they are normally up. That only means the side of the ship I was on wasn't completely scrapped off, putting me with a huge body of sea water and a lot of electricity. Oh what fun that would have been.

Than there was the near death experiences the one where we lost depth control and were going down backwards in the submarine. There was the time we lost dept control again and they were screaming at me during a drill to get propulsion back. I guess I didn't realize nobody relieved me and I was supposed to get the shaft moving again. The time I thought I was working and a deenergized system on to find out that 440V was there, that was really fun since it went from one arm to the other arm and of course my heart was in the pathway. Nothing too bad it only stopped for a few seconds. Oh my favorite of all times was the USS Alaska. Imagine me inside of a torpedo tube which is about less than 2 feet in diameter with no light and no protection except a wood cover. The submarine starts moving because we are in drydock and there was an earthquake , so two things could have happen. One is that the sub could have dropped off the blocks and the other is that the wall could have moved up and let seawater in and once that happen the wall would have gone away. I would have shot out of the torpedo tube the opposite direction that it is designed to. Well the only thing that did happen is I got out of the tube and a bunch of shipyard bubbas were standing around. I shout earthquake and they start running like rats in water, while I stand there waiting for the aftershocks.

Yes for all my near misses and stupid thing that I did. I can figure there could have been worse.