After a great 2 1/2 weeks, the exercise named RIMPAC is over. The "Ugly Angels" (the name of my sqaudron) performed at their best and we are all looking forward to a long 4 day weekend starting on Friday. Last night we had a celebratory surf and turf dinner. While some commented that lobster tails should never be mass produced (as they were a little rubbery), I was just grateful to be eating steak and lobster. My grandmother always taught us to be thanful for what we have. Although I have to say that I'll be looking forward to having a good meal and some Cold Stone Ice Cream - the soft serve ice cream here tastes contaminated.
A few days ago, the ship got resupplied by a military cargo ship, pictured below off the port bow. The ship approaches fairly close, then a gun shoots a harpoon like device to establish a line between the two ships to ropel cargo back and forth. I got a couple great shots and if you look closely in the second photo, you can see the cable that extends from the two ships with one of the crates moving across. As you can also see, the seas were pretty choppy that day - the Tropical Depression was approaching.
To conclude my tour of the ship, yesterday I went to the Tower and the Bridge. I got a panoramic 360 view from up there and it was pretty cool. In the way distance there was a Destroyer, and while I couldn't make it out with my I-phone to take a picture, when I held my I-phone camera up to the binoculars, it came in nice and clear! It's kind of funny. I mean, here we are in the middle of the Pacific - aircraft carriers, destroyers, jets, helicopters, Marines, amphibous aircraft, nations from every continent represented and at the end of a long day, all the multi-national enlisted forces want to do to kick back and relax is play a game of Risk - the board game about waging war scenarios and taking over countries and territories. You'd think they'd have had enough - but I guess these are the die hard gung ho Hoo-rah troops for ya.
As I write, my Marines are lined up waiting to board their aircraft back to Kaneohe Bay. I've learned a lot on board here and I've had some time to sit back and gather my thoughts, always a good exercise for me as I have a tendancy to be scatter brained and hyper all too often. I had time to write my Residency Application Personal Statement, an essay I was procrastinating from writing for some time (enclosed below for whoever cares to read it), I made some key decisions about where I want to do my residency, I had 2 1/2 weeks of lots of gym time, no alcohol and plenty of rest, and I performed admirably for my squadron in taking care of my Marines. I am grateful that I've had this experience and will remember these days for years to come.
6 comments:
Wow, RJ, I always love your pictures and commentary! I cracked up when I read you put your cell phone up to the binoculars! Genius!!! OK, now I'm gonna go read your statement.
HUGS!!!
T-MINUS 3 Months until Hawaii. Watch out natives the east puerto rican is on his way.
v
Victor, why are you always warning someone that 'the Rican is on his way'?
When is the Rican NOT on his way?
:P
RJ, thanks for the wrap up of the BHR Chronicles. (Sounds like something from D&D. :-)
RJ,
As always--very interesting.
I loved this whole "series", the pictures were awesome. Even though I have a son in the Coast Guard I've learned more about boats (he always gets mad when I call them boats) from you, he's just not the communicator that you are :)
Good luck with your residency program- who could NOT choose you with that great personal statement.
Debby
Another RJ adventure checked off the list!! Thanks for sharing!
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