Yesterday marked my 19th anniversary in the Navy. It seems hard to believe that I have been getting up early for 19 years now and going into work. I spent the day with out doing much really, I worked and spoke with my new students and the kids who just graduated boot camp. Fridays is really the best day of the week but not for the reason you may think. I come in early and have my usual morning paperwork and admin but Fridays I also get to talk to my boys before liberty call and meet the sailors coming in from bootcamp. Talking to them is great because it is the first day of the Navy for them, they are out of bootcamp and are now becoming what makes the Navy great, our diverse enlisted ranks.
Funny things is for most of these kids I am a relic, believe it or not at 37 I came into the Navy before some of these kids were born. That makes me feel a little old.
I have two years left on my current contract, and I am now working on going to college and thinking about what I want to be when I grow up.
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Congrats.
My mom and I were talking about you and Ed Lizak, realizing that you'd both been in the service that long. She was surprised that it was so long ago.
We moved to Atlanta 18+ years ago, but it doesn't feel like it! We are still damn yankees to most of our neighbors.
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