I had to redo my leave chit today. when I submitted terminal leave chit I didn't account for the twenty free days the Navy wants to give me in order to help me find a job, and maybe a new dwelling. I also miscounted the days, so after recounting and adding the missing days I realized I actually leave the Navy Oct 5, vice 15 Nov. Much better.

Now I've come to the end of my rode I tend to think back on the people I worked with. Whether I saw them as good or bad, I learned a little from most of them. I really don't know what should I feel at this moment of turning. Fear? Excitment? A little longing for the past? I feel all these things, these feelings come and go, and as the wheel turns, they come back again. The biggest time I feel anxiety is when people ask me what do I plan on doing after the Navy. this is a question I myself have asked countless of retirees as the departed the Navy, unknowing that maybe a few of them it doesn't help matters, it just exsacerbates the depression. I know the big stroke of what I want to do. I want to open a coffee shop. Running a coffee shop will require training, what drinks to make, what supplies to have on hand etc. etc. That will mean working some minimum wage job or two. One to learn the biz, and one just to survive.

Well the powers that be have banned us from driving Zodiacs. This stems from the incident while training last week. The skin on Bryant's arm was shredded when he fell from the Zodiac during surf training. It usually happens like that, when ever something happens those in authority, whether it be the department head or the XO, over react just as executives tend to do. Basically the XO heard of the incident and asked why were we driving over the surf zone when SEALS are specially trained to do such. Then this idea went from lucid to stupid. Now we have to drop the Zodiac at the closest ramp and turn it over the one of SEAL instructor if the Op is in the bay. The reason for the incident was because the operator were trying to manuver the inside the breaker zone. Zodiacs cannot tarry in this zone, launch the boat and get out past this zone or get in and beach the boat. When the boat turned sideways to the surf a wave hit it on the side and the caused it to roll. The bay doesn't have these waves, there are no reason to worry that this will happen. But exec's brains don't operate like that and our chiefs mess doesn't isn't here to do any work I guess. All they do is deliver the word from above, there is no fight in them.