The weather today is Garbage. At least it is for San Diego, it's rainy. Nothing to do but laundry, drink beer, and maybe cook the last Pork Loin. The last thing I want to do is drive in this weather. My biggest concern is the stupid people that are revealed on a wonderful as this. The road are slick with oil and water and these freaks drive as fast and carefree as they do on dry pavement.
Couldn't get much sleep. Had a bad feeling that the shop had let the fact the boats had to be on the barge this week slip through their conscious thought. It was a nagging feeling that last week I tried to ignore. I tried telling myself that this would be a good thing if they forgot. Not for the command at large of course, the boats are to be used as support for the 5.5 mi swim at SCI. Every SEAL wanabe has to accomplish this task. It is one of the big hurdles on their way to be a SEAL, the other is Hell Week. So if we didn't have the boats at the island in a timely fashion I'm sure they would find their way around it but the rumblings from such a fumble would be such that I would rather be in Baharain just to escape the blast radius. Before I left on leave I told the boss that the boats had to be on the barge this week or else they wouldn't make it because of prior engagement of the barge. He told me to relax, that they would get the boats to the island, that I should just enjoy my leave. That is exactly what I intended to do. I absence as much as I could any thought of being in the Navy. Pushing every nagging thought to the way side until last I could do so no longer. All night long I tossed and turned at the thought of getting back to work on Friday and discovering that there are no boats at the island. Also the thought of the department head, and then the XO discovering the lack of support from,"Boat Support". So it wouldn't matter if my boss was imcompetent or lazy for not staying in touch with the big picture while everyone else was on stand down I would still feel the pain. So early today I first called the shop to see if anyone came in or were they on stand down. Then I called EN1 to ask if he had shipped the boats yet. I also reminded him how big of flub this would be by asking him if I could extend my leave by two weeks in order to be clear of the splash when the shit hits the fan. I told him that in order fix they'll have take part in a fire drill, some people will have to switch out trailers of the 15 boat and deliver the boats to the staging point while other will have to run the paper work and ensure the barge master that the paper is in route. On top of this Operations are going to start up hot and heavy. I'm sure their going to call me into work to help out tomorrow, and that I will be accused of leaving them a time bomb by keeping secrets. Of course as I said before I kept my boss abreast of what needed to be done while I was gone. It is times like this I think it would be best if I just resigned my position. I hear there is an opening in X-Div. Remove any excuse generators and make people stand accountable. I'm not even talking about the junior people since it is my job to teach them that. I'm talking about the many 1st classes that litter the shop.