another long night. The good news is that it only happens once every other night. The bird took off at 2200, then two more times till 0500. I'm sure she'll contiue to go aloft but after that it's someone elses duty day. Today wasn't a hot sweaty day, more like hot and clammy. Not enough heat to have to keep wiping my face like yesterday. Today was hot enough to put a layer of sweat on my skin that would evaporate because of the humidity in the gulf. Giving one the feeling of being sticky all day long. It's never as bad as when one transits from the air conditioned interior to the weather decks.
We did an unrep at the wee hours of the morning. That was thought up to beat the heat, it was a good idea. Now that it's getting near summer time it's getting hotter during the noon periods. Unfortunately nobody is use to being awake at 0500, I mean this is the Navy for crying out. The only people up at the time are watchstanders.
It took us forever to get the rigs set up. No one had thought of having more stations running than normal would require more jackets. I would have to suck that up a bit since I'm a senior enlisted in the division. I did think of setting the jackets out for line handlers. If it weren't for the carrier to shadow our ineptitude we would be under the microscope, one of the reasons that chief was pissed.
All week long my PaPa manual was missing I asked all my maintenance men if they had seen it. Everyone one of them told me they haven't seen it. Even the prime suspect, of course. He had a spot check so needed the book to verify his maintenance card. So he had taken it from the office to the location of the spotcheck. He kept telling me that he brought the book back after the spot check. Well right when I was contemplating having to create a new manual my prime suspect comes in with the manual. God I'm relieved, I can't even imagine what a pain in the ass it would be to print all the MI pages up, find a LOEP, line out all the nonapplicable checks and get Satan, I'm sorry I mean, The Cock, damn there I go again the dept. head to sign all of my line outs.