Archive for August, 2009
Ubuntu 9.04!
I got so sick and tired of Vista and its constant problems, the latest being my internet constantly timing out when my laptop went idle. I used UNetbootin to turn my extra usb drive into a boot-loader, then completely overwrote my vista partition. I can say that so far everything has been working phenomenally! Ubuntu even works with my keyboard-media buttons, which vista 50/50′d on.
I figured I’d attempt to re-learn python again (which sparked the high level of hate for windows), and openvag.net seems to be the perfect choice! When I first started learning python, I got heavy into the Django framework, while using Python 2.6.2 as my main environment. I’ll keep posted on the progress of whatever I can think of working on.
Transferring
This has been one of the best weeks ever for me. I took my comp test and scored an 84 (w00t), received my ‘written’ orders, and figured out my transfer date. My written orders are as follows:
- Detach CSCS Great Lakes, IL 21Aug09 (I go on leave for 7 days)
- Report no later than (NLT) 30Aug09, and no early than (net) 29Aug09 to CSCS Norfolk, VA
- Attend 017 days of COMSEC MAIN TECH (NEC: 1460)
- Detach CSCS Norfolk, VA 18Sep09
- Report NTL 27Sep09 and NET 26Sep09 to STU CID Dam Neck, VA
- Attend 082 days of ISM (NEC: 1678)
- Detach STU CID Dam Neck, VA 23Dec09 (This is when I expect I’ll have the opportunity to come home for Holiday Leave)
- Report NTL 03Jan10 and NET 02Jan10 to CSCS Dam Neck, VA
- Attend 039 days of Naval Station Mayport, FL to the USS Klakring (FFG-42)
It seems complicated, I know but I’ll explain a little. Detaching is exactly what the dictionary states: leaving. When I leave here (CSCS Great Lakes, IL) I will be leaving 7 days prior to me having to report to my first ‘C’ school: COMSEC MAIN TECH. This provides me 7 days of leave, which I’ll be routing my ticket from O’Hare to Cleveland Hopkins, then down to Norfolk. Most orders have a NTL and NET, which means I can’t show up at the front gate any earlier or later than the provided dates (duh). I have three ‘C’ schools altogether: COMSEC MAIN TECH (NEC: 1460), ISM (NEC: 1678), AN/WSN-7(v) (NEC: 9612). COMSEC MAIN TECH is in Norfolk, ISM and AN/WSN-7(v) are both located in Dam Neck (which is about 30 minutes inland from Norfolk). When all my schools are done I will be reporting to Naval Station Mayport, Fl to the USS Klakring (FFG-42) until 1403 (March of 2014), so essentially all of my current contract. My primary NEC (job) will be AN/WSN-7(v), which is the ship’s Inertial Navigation System machine (INS), and without it the ship is just a floating chunk of steel.
Getting stationed on the east coast and having a small ship were both of my dreams, after I found out what exactly my job was they turned out to be even better than I imagined. Altogether I’ll have almost 19 months in school thanks to the Navy, and based on what I’ve been able to gather about my ship I’ll be traveling to all the areas that I enlisted to see! Its an amazing feeling to know that I’ve gone through one of the hardest schools that the Navy has to offer and received my rate through all the headaches, long nights, and boring lectures. On top of all that, I’ll also be a reasonably important aspect to my ship which I suppose wil some day give me a bit of bragging rights.
Verbals!
After finally passing Radar Systems with an 83% (the final mod in the course) I went to the PLR and just happened to get “verbals” in! According to the verbals I got: USS Klakring (FFG-42) stationed in Mayport, Florida; NEC’s: 1678 and 9612. All I can say is that I’m not only ecstatic about passing the test, but I’m absolutely thrilled I got east-coast and a small ship. Its definitely an amazing feeling to know I’m finally leaving this command and moving on to some where they respect and actually treat you like a human being and an individual.