wow. that was crazy.

to start off. Saturday was my duty day. it was easy. a barracks watch in the morning, and duty driver the rest of the day. no big deal. what made it freakin awesome was it SNOWED that night! and just a little powder flurry, a freakin horizontal white out snow storm!! it kicked ass!!
so i finally saw snow. i was happy.

so sunday we were suppossed to go out eraly that morning. well the seas were real rough, so our time got pushed back not once, but three times. finally around dinner we sailed away, seas still rough, but a little calmer.

monday was a day in the history books for my ship, the mighty USS Nashville. the navy is buying these unmanned aircrafts called UAV's. there're still in testing, and up until monday were NEVER tested on a ship underway. but that all changed, because that day we successfully landed this UAV (this particular prototype was a helocpter, about the size of a vw) onboard our flight deck while moving. it was really cool! there were news cameras everywhere and photographers. it was neat to be the VERY FIRST SHIP in history to have a UAV land on it while underwy. im famous now!

anyway, tuesday was more testing, and we were suppossed to stay out until friday. but the seas were getting worse, and so bad that one of the big deck amphibious ships had some damage done to her. a couple communication antennas broke, some hull damage, and a major radar module broke off from its mount. some serious, not to mention expensive damage. so the commadore recalled all the ships that were in the area affected by this storm, and one of those ships was us. so we got to pull back into port three days early! hell i didnt complain one bit!

so here i am happy and telling the story. and now its done.
time to enjoy my new laptop more.


.RocK.