Back to Work

I finally made it back to the ship after 10 days of traveling. After 5 flights that took me from Jacksonville to Atlanta to Norfolk to Detroit to Amsterdam to Bahrain, I spent 2 nights in Bahrain where the one day I had there I slept all day. I met up with 4 people reporting to the ship and an NCPACE instructor who were going to make the rest of the trip with me. I am so glad I did not do the originally Everett route. Those guys had taken 7 days to get from Everett to Bahrain on military flights. No thanks.

We went to the military airlift airport with no clue where we were going. Ends up we were taking a C-130 to Djibouti. Talk about no frills. A C-130 is a cargo plane that they stick some seats in and haul passengers around. Not fun for 5 hours. We touched down in lovely Djibouti were I think the cash crop is plastic bags. They pretty much are on every tree, bush, fence, all over the place. Dirtiest place I have ever seen. I was scared with the mention of an overnight at the camp they have there. It would have literally been in tents. Thank goodness the ship we were riding down was already in port. We spent the night there and left the next morning.

Luckily I had a room to myself (it was HUGE!) since I was up all night on east coast time. Without anything to do during the day, I am still feeling the jet lag. The helo ride this morning was cool, very short.

Hopefully I will get on a normal schedule now that I am back to work. I think I am off the hook for watch today, although I might volunteer for a mid-watch since I think I will be up anyways.
Linda