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Status ReportBeen a while since I put something up here, figured I'd fill everyone in on how things are going here at tech school. First, and most obviously, it is goddamned hot out; I cannot wait to get the fuck outta Texas. Of course it doesn't help that I'm going to Arizona next, but more on that later. Class is going pretty well. I'm not allowed to go into details, but I will say that the hands on stuff we are doing is really cool and I'm excited to get out into my career field. We're proceeding apace and right on schedule for our Aug. 22 grad date.
After waiting so long, my whole class has assignments now; we had a few with assignments already, but now so do the rest of us. Anyhow, once we're done here at Goodfellow I'll be heading to my first duty station at Osan Air Base, Korea. Before then, and here's where the Arizona thing comes in, those of us going to Osan have to go to Fort Huachuca (Wa-choo-ka) for Morse School. Fun fun. According to our instructor after the first few weeks we'll be convinced we hear morse in everything from bird tweets to the humming of the 'fridge.
I've got mixed feelings on it all. On the one hand I have no problem going to Korea; I've never been to that part of the world and it would be really cool to go see what all the sights and such are. On the other I'd really like to not go to Arizona, especially if having to go to morse school would keep me from doing recruiter assistance and/or going back home on leave before getting to my first duty station. There is the possibility that I could swap with one of my classmates, in which case I'd be going to Misawa AB Japan.
I don't know, though. It would be (in my estimation) rather cool to know morse code. There's also a crap ton of incentives for going to Korea. It's a one year remote tour, and once the year is up I'd get Base of Preference afterward. So I could hypothetically go from there to Germany or Italy or anywhere ConUS (stateside); or, if I chose to stay in Korea for another year I'd get an extra $300 a month incentive pay (according to my instructor).
So yeah, that's kinda where I'm at right now - getting paid to learn cool stuff and trying to decide whether I want to go to Korea or Japan. Life most definitely does not suck.
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