Well another month and the changes are apparent. Sinur is now in supply, right now he says he likes it, who wouldn't with all the air conditioning in the middle of the gulf. I could be like cranking, a break from the crunch but boring in the long run. Who knows he could overcome his misgivings of the rate and actually find it is actually a rate that he likes. In the end he would look back and see all the fun and excitment he may have had in deck, and think though it was a bright spot it didn't out weigh the B.S. . Denis is off the flight deck for now while he learns to run the bridge watch as the BMOW. Now I'll have Burch and Masterson on the flight deck. Cox doesn't like that Masterson is now running chain when Burch has put in his off time to learn the position. I don't think it's a good idea either since we'll just have to change him later on when he make MA. However since I didn't speak up in a timely manner I guess I'll have to suck it up. There is a fix and I'll bring it up tomorrow morning, if I remember, that we just trade Burch out with Sinur since Sinur is now supply. The middy that we have is pretty active in our activity. Up till now the ones that we get are either lazy or snactched up by other operations divisions because of the unfavorable stench that accompanies deck work. To the uninitiates our lot in life is dirty and lowly. Filled with long hours of painting and sweeping. Though since we have alot of area outside in the weather where dirt and salt do fester. Our duties are punctcuated by underway replenishment, Flight Quarters, Boat Operations and the like. All of the reasons I enjoy my job. Now that I've become BM1 though I won't be able to do some of them since they are considered more suited for Junior personnel. That is the problem with growing up, you can no longer do the things that you enjoyed when one was younger.

Hi people
Well it's nothing but fun and games here in the Gulf's yachting, and shooting club. The weather is hot and sweaty, a little better than balmy. Nothing much going on, the war against rust, dust, and boredom continues. I have the flight deck duty today, but flight ops are pretty light. No flight quarters till 1500. We have a couple of middies in our division and we're trying to get them involved in all aspects of deck evolutions. BMC wants to get them into the nitty gritty and of painting and sweeping also. Though that isn't happening yet we did put them into the boat for VBSS training, and I brought one onto the flight deck for today's flight quarters. The det was a little leery of it, I guess they want to be sure he won't walk into a rotor blade and add more work into their day. Their on and off when it comes to amount of attention they pay to operations. Sometimes they let us run the deck, as it should be. Sometimes their looking over my shoulder making want to just turn control over to them and go below and do something useful. They told us this morning that their may be a chance that we may be going into and out of river city so if you don't hear from me for awhile that is why. Ther may be a chance that our next port visit will be Bahrain again. I would be a little upset if I didn't get visit Dubai one last time before the end of my last sea tour but I think I would get over it if it meant not staying out triple sticks like last time.