Things To Come

With still no internet access, no source of the outside world other than email, any .edu or .navy.mil is the only thing we can do. It seems that somebody on the marine corps side said we were sucking down bandwidth which caused for a ship wide halt for everyone's internet access. Even for your most common bill paying sites. Completely unreal on the hoops you have to jump through for the smallest shit. And you know the weirdest thing, is that from the data that we are getting from our servers, we are only utilizing stuff like foxnews.com, navyfcu.org (bank), and stuff like USAA.. I mean seriously, whatever happened to the phrase shut up and grow a pair, and stand up and tell someone they need to shut their mouth and stop complaining. And it all started shortly after we left. Real amazing when people that are in the lead of things (in charge of many people below them) can't tell someone TOO FUCKING BAD!
But we are really doing good things out here, helping all of these people in the poorest country in the world. giving out tons of food, water, medical supplies and help. We even brought aboard a 90yr old women last night and a little kid. So.... we are giving alot of support. We still have sailors and marines ashore everyday to help build tents, and hand out stuff. Alot of word floating around on returning before the first of march, and then coming from the big dogs we will be out here until almost april. And it all comes down to what it will take to have the non-profit organizations able to do this on their own. There is little to no threat out here, and it's just about the same as being in some other poor part of the neighborhood. Except here, and as far as i've learned that this government hasn't put a stop/and or law to rape and beatings of women among many other things. These people are really bad off and are in need of a governement to standup and tell them what is right and wrong. Here is some positive coverage:
The Navy received positive coverage in Wired and Popular Mechanics on communications technology used in Haiti
US Navy received positive coverage online via MTV News reports on USS Carl Vinson and Univision/La Razon reports on USS Bataan
The first few weeks there was a ton of media coverage out here on just about everyship, and now they are pretty much completely gone. So hopefully in the next few weeks of floating in the same spot we will see an increase of the non-profit organizations and the Haiti government standing back up.