I'll be underway defending freedom and whatnot for most of the rest of June. I'll celebrate my 21st birthday in a Nimitz-class carrier engine room. That is equal parts depressing and awesome. Well, that is to say that June 16th will come and go underway. I'm sure that the real celebrating will happen once we're back ashore. Two separate groups of my friends have informed me that I will be going out drinking with them when we get back. Yes, informed. I was neither asked nor invited. The statement that I was going was presented to me as a fact in both cases. Merely bringing me up to speed on how things would be. For better or for worse; this is going to be interesting...