Pictures say wonders. What you see above is what it's like for us to do a replinshment (take on food, ect) while out to sea. This time it's only to take on stores and not fuel at that same time. Sunday we did a 210 pallet replenishment(above) of food and other misc. items that the ship needed. I know it might not seem like alot, but trust me, when you've got 12 pallets of soda and there are 50-70 cases per pallet, makes for a long day.
Anyway, it just happened that during this replinshment that not one of those 210 pallets went to Haiti. That pretty much sums up what we are currently up to. Now it's all about studying for exams and other qualifications.
So for the past two to three weeks the crew has been almost at a stand still. The first month was the most active and non-stop between doing medivacs, taking food, water, and tents to shore. For about the past two to three weeks we have seen a significant stop in everything. The only thing that has continued is the VIP/DV tours that we have played apart in. Even today we had the Secretary of the Navy come out to Bataan. Of course like every other DV the word still says: Great job on getting out here so fast, I'm so very proud of what you are doing here, and everyone appreciates what you continue to do. To go along with that, we are thankful to have hot showers again, three meals a day, and a place to sleep. Although we are all really wondering, what is really going on right now, what is stopping us from leaving, and if we are only doing minor flights during the day then what's the point of burning all this money to stay here? If any of you know a Marine, you know that the worst thing in the world is to have a bored Marine. It's one thing for a Navy guy to get bored, but mix that one Navy guy with about 22-2300 Marines and you have a full house waiting to rock.
... And so the twiddling continues
Not sure if you seen Chille had a earhtquake also. Do you know if you'll be heading that way for aid also??
ReplyDeleteI agree if ya'll are done helping haiti get to sailing you been away from long enough
ReplyDeleteYea we saw the one for Chille and the other one that happened around California.. But from the looks of it, that would/migh be handled from the units in California.
ReplyDeleteMom - Yea we all agree with you. For about 2-3 weeks now we've done nothing but clean and just kinda hang out. From what it looks like we might be heading out of the area next week, but still not get back to homeport until the end of the month.