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13 years ago
Been a hot second since I posted a journal. For those of you who don't care, here's what's new! =D
As of today I officially have one year left of my contract. Looking back at it, I can't tell if I feel like I've been in this organization forever or if I just enlisted a few days ago. It's weird, but I can't tell if time has gone by slow as shit or really fast. Regardless, I can't wait for my contract to be up.
Less relevant, had a PT test the other week. 65 push ups, 67 situps, 15:08 2 mile, 175lbs. Army standards that's passing with 249pts out of a possible 300. Considering that I haven't done PT with my unit in almost 3 years and hate working out, I'm pretty satisfied. At the very least it keeps my unit off my back and ensures I'll keep working in my investigative section rather than playing Army in a line unit.
Less relevant still, finally been able to drink again. Last month I stopped because I had a promotion board and shortly after that our unit went on dry status for a field exercise. Even though I wasn't part of the exercise, I still wasn't allowed to have a drink. Stopped drinking for about 4 weeks; which was a nice way to reaffirm to myself for sure that I'm not an alcoholic or anything- but I'm glad that the past couple weeks I've been able to get pretty hammered on my time off just because it's fun.
Since I mentioned it- went to a promotion board at the start of the month and got recommended for promotion to Sergeant. They sent me to a promo board a few months prior which I failed intentionally since I have absolutely no desire to be a supervisor in the organization. When I found out they were sending me again I decided to study this time just to get them off my back. Even though I'm recommended for promotion, I'll never make the rank of Sergeant while in the Army. I have nowhere near the required number of 'points' for it and have absolutely no intention to change this. I've always been content to be a subordinate in this organization and I'm not trying to change that.
Fuck me though, the Army is. After passing the board I got assigned some soldiers. For a while I was in charge of a PFC in my section- but he's gone now that he failed the last PT test (dumb privates). Right now I'm technically in charge of two Korean soldiers. The few of you who read this and aren't in the military are probably going 'korean soldiers, huh?'. The US Army has a program where a large number of Korean soldiers are selected to work with us. These guys are fucking awesome. The KATUSA program is very selective so the ones who make it into the program are smart as shit. The two who I'm responsible for are all around cool guys. Very competent, they stay out of trouble, they do their job. Works for me.
That's about all I can think of right now. Overall, things are pretty okay. I'm sure as soon as things change I'll rant about it here. haha
As of today I officially have one year left of my contract. Looking back at it, I can't tell if I feel like I've been in this organization forever or if I just enlisted a few days ago. It's weird, but I can't tell if time has gone by slow as shit or really fast. Regardless, I can't wait for my contract to be up.
Less relevant, had a PT test the other week. 65 push ups, 67 situps, 15:08 2 mile, 175lbs. Army standards that's passing with 249pts out of a possible 300. Considering that I haven't done PT with my unit in almost 3 years and hate working out, I'm pretty satisfied. At the very least it keeps my unit off my back and ensures I'll keep working in my investigative section rather than playing Army in a line unit.
Less relevant still, finally been able to drink again. Last month I stopped because I had a promotion board and shortly after that our unit went on dry status for a field exercise. Even though I wasn't part of the exercise, I still wasn't allowed to have a drink. Stopped drinking for about 4 weeks; which was a nice way to reaffirm to myself for sure that I'm not an alcoholic or anything- but I'm glad that the past couple weeks I've been able to get pretty hammered on my time off just because it's fun.
Since I mentioned it- went to a promotion board at the start of the month and got recommended for promotion to Sergeant. They sent me to a promo board a few months prior which I failed intentionally since I have absolutely no desire to be a supervisor in the organization. When I found out they were sending me again I decided to study this time just to get them off my back. Even though I'm recommended for promotion, I'll never make the rank of Sergeant while in the Army. I have nowhere near the required number of 'points' for it and have absolutely no intention to change this. I've always been content to be a subordinate in this organization and I'm not trying to change that.
Fuck me though, the Army is. After passing the board I got assigned some soldiers. For a while I was in charge of a PFC in my section- but he's gone now that he failed the last PT test (dumb privates). Right now I'm technically in charge of two Korean soldiers. The few of you who read this and aren't in the military are probably going 'korean soldiers, huh?'. The US Army has a program where a large number of Korean soldiers are selected to work with us. These guys are fucking awesome. The KATUSA program is very selective so the ones who make it into the program are smart as shit. The two who I'm responsible for are all around cool guys. Very competent, they stay out of trouble, they do their job. Works for me.
That's about all I can think of right now. Overall, things are pretty okay. I'm sure as soon as things change I'll rant about it here. haha
You should let me replace that PFC since I'm finally one too, I do gud things.