Well the “big mystery” as to why the Navy sent me to San Diego is over.  Apparently, I’ve been chosen to learn about wireless walkie-talkie radio doohickies.  And here I thought it would be something technical.

According to my instructor, 90% of your job will be checking out these radios to people and keeping track of their location.  The other 10% will be troubleshooting and repair of the radios.  (For those of you in the back of the room with the retarded look on your faces, that’s 100% radios.  Hey, mechanics, I’m talking to you.)

This is interesting news since the government has spent thousands of dollars and the past year-and-a-half teaching me nuclear power.  Eh, who needs a reactor when you can have radios?  Unless these radios are nuclear powered or something?  Or, maybe this nuclear power thing is a big conspiracy and the ships are really radio controlled!  I think I’ve stumbled onto to something big here…

And speaking of military intelligence…  I was assigned to a room that has two beds in it.  I discovered that I had two roommates.  One of my room mates was an E-1, some Airman Electrician Recruit.  I was tired and it was 11 o’clock at night, so I decided to put off changing rooms until the morning.  Before I went to bed, I informed my roommate that, in the event of roomy #3 returning, he wasn’t about to get my bed.  If #3 woke me up, I would only send him over to cuddle with the recruit.

It took three hours of paperwork, military stupidity, and civilian laziness before my room move was complete.  I’ve moved out of the shitty basement apartment-like room into a hotel-type of room with a maid service and cable television.  I get a nicer barracks because I’m only here temporarily.  My friend, who is stationed here in San Diego, has to stay in the shitty room.  Ha!

It only gets better, too.  My work schedule is nowhere near as drastic as nuke school.  A lot shorter hours, no duty, and no watchstanding.  If I could get the Navy to throw in a naked Keira Knightley to serve me alcoholic beverages, I think I’d spend the rest of my time in the Navy here.

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