I am in the USO inside Chicago O'hare right now, just chillin waiting on my flight to South Carolina. I am officially a United States sailor and I never have to go back to Recruit Training Command...YAY. I will let everyone know how they can get in touch with me as soon as I get settled in Charleston.

Yea so I finally graduated bootcamp ( Read more... )

Hey you guys! this is lin...im posting for shelbie.
we have her adress so EVERYBODY WRITE TO HER!!! she needs your support :D

SRCohen, Shelbie R
ship01,USS the sullivan, div103
RTC
3301 Indiana St.
Great Lakes, Ill 60088-3127

**MUST BE EXACTLY LIKE THAT!**

Yea so this is it. I have to check in at 0900 hours tomorrow morning. Everyone please write me, Lindsey will have my address in about a week hopefully.

So I am leaving South Carolina tonight for Orlando. Bootcamp is getting closer and closer. I am a mix of anxious, excited, and nervous but I think that I am going to do fine. That is about all I have to say for the time being, everything in my life is kind of revolving around making it through bootcamp. I will update as soon as I know the ( Read more... )

So yea, I got an interesting phone call today. It seems that I am going to bootcamp a lot earlier that I thought. I am now leaving the week of December 13th. I will find out the exact date lunch time tomorrow. With this new information, I will be leaving Kentucky on Sunday and going back to South Carolina. I will be there a few days before ( Read more... )

YAY for getting a paycheck every week. I got another one today, they decided to give us our checks early for Thanksgiving. $432 dollars for one week how awesome is that shit. HAPPY THANKSGIVING everyone, I hope you all have a good one. I have to work and that kind of sux but what can you do. Well, I'm off to bed, working 11 hours a night ( Read more... )

I got my first paycheck on Friday...woohoo!!! Nothing else exciting is going on, I worked my first ten hour day today...I'm a little tired, but I enjoy my job so the time goes pretty quickly. I made 109 dollars today...not bad for a days work so I am not going to complain ( Read more... )

So...I am officially certified to drive a stock picker/fork lift. That is a fork lift that you ride that goes 40 feet up in the air. My job is to get boxes off really high shelves, it is a lot of fun. A little scary at times becuase the stock picker sways a lot when it is between 30 and 40 feet. I worked 22.5 hours last week for $9.90 and hour ( Read more... )

I met a lot of cool people last night. Melissa (Peggy's roommate)and I went and hung out with some college kids that we work with. They go to Lindsey Wilson college, population 1200. Yea, it is really little. Anyway, Melissa drank a lot and lost her keys so we stayed the night there till we found her purse this morning when we woke up. Tonight ( Read more... )