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Subsenix – Staring At Infinity - Feat. Essence (Orginal Mix)

Grr…
Ever have a day where you feel like your banging your head against a wall and no matter which way you turn the wall is still there? Well that is about the day I’m having.
It feels like no matter which way I try to turn, it will still be there and I can’t see a way around it.
Like for instance, I’ve been wanting to work out for weeks, but by the time I get off of work it’s almost 9pm if not past that. Maybe it’s just me, but it’s over kill to have this long of a day almost every day of the week.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve worked some long days in the past 10years and even long weeks. I'm trying to figure out at what point that I tell my boss to give me a 24hr break
……

Hypercaine

You got something inside worth giving
Now look at the life I’m livin
I am hooked on that hypercaine feelin
I can’t put my finger on the vibe that’s wining

You got something inside worth giving
Now look at the life I’m livin
Cause it’s the only thing that keeps me movin
Now I can’t tire
I’m on the wire

You got something inside worth giving
Now look at the life I’m livin
I am hooked on that hypercaine feelin
I can’t put my finger on the vibe that’s wining

You got something inside worth giving
Now look at the life I’m livin
Cause it the only thing that keeps me movin
Now I can’t tire
I’m on the wire

I gotta keep movin’ onnnn
I gotta keep movin’ onnnn
I gotta keep movin’ onnnn
I gotta keep movin’ onnnn

ALL WE NEEEDDDDD

I gotta keep movin’ on
gotta keep movin’ on
gotta keep movin’ on
gotta keep movin’ on
gotta keep movin’ on
Movin’ on
Movin’ on
Movin’ on
Movin’ on

Gotta keep moving on

Last night I was up until 1130 finishing some notes for the qual I’m going after, and tonight was three hours of training on fundamentals. Which ever way it goes, I’ll have it before we get back from all of this madness, mayhem, confusion, and stepping stone short of a cluster. Interesting stuff that they are trying to plan out here to get these different doctors, active guard members, and NGO on shore. Too bad I want to post this and the server is down for reboots…..

Breakfast starts at 530am until 7. The hot coffee helps to get started. So if your actually up at those hours you can pick up your hot breakfast, ranging from eggs to order, omelets, hash browns, hard boiled eggs…. Sometimes you might get a pancake that actually tastes like pancakes. Haha sounds tasty don’t it??
Then the ever famous cleaning stations begins at 0745 until 0830, and people are out and about in the spaces they own through out the ship making sure things get a good wipe down. That is about a normal morning.

You know an interesting comment came up the other day, and for us Navy folks it’s all normal everyday living for us, but some of the things that our Non-Government Organization were talking about… Why am I not in an Officer Stateroom, and how do you expect me to sleep in this coffin rack? People who are getting a real taste of military life who have been use to their beds at home for many years are now getting a real taste for our day to day living. Although I’m sure the change for them was huge, but what you will learn to adapt to brings a new insight on things they will never forget about. I’ll have to go take a picture of a rack onboard and stuff some random Joe Smoe in it. >=) Lucky for them, they get to eat with the officers onboard and do their laundry upstairs where the a/c is and not down stairs where the us enlisted Joe’s do ours.. It’s a bit hotter down there.Our NGO’s are the civilian part of the mission from different volunteer organizations that do medical treatments and training. I mentioned most of them a few blogs ago.
On local news stations in Norfolk, Va; San Diego, Ca; Mayport, Fl and many other places you will see footage of family’s on the pier as they watch their loved one’s leave for the enduring and what seems to be the never ending Six Month deployment cycle to some random place over sea’s. With over 330k active duty personal, over 102k ready reserves there is currently almost 40k of those personal on deployment cycles right now on over 155 different ships around the globe.
And there is a certain amount of pride that will always go along with all of this. Both from the active duty members, their family, and friends. As silly or funny as it might sound… There is no place like home. I remember a video once done and I’m not sure by whom, but the music behind it is from 3 Doors Down – When I’m Gone. If I get to go ashore again, I’ll have to hook up the Wi-Fi and look for it on Youtube, but some really amazing footage from places covered in sand, to airports as they are welcomed back home, to the same pier they departed from.

From Afar

All the way from Columbia…. What a trip so far. Who would have thought more than 10 years ago that I’d be looking at the coast and helping people in Covenas, Colombia and still so many other country’s to go on our four month outing.
So there’s a lot of over cast here. We see rain every morning almost on shore, and then a brief shower in the evening. Barely any sunshine at all these past few days and from the way it looks it’ll stay that way. Still conducting flight ops everyday and moving people back and forth from shore, but no where near the amount we did for Haiti the first time from January to March. Most of the work is general medical training which goes a lot into physical health and how to avoid the most common diseases. We have teams of dental personal that are going out and doing filling, teeth cleanings and another team of veterinarians that are roaming the jungle to check the country’s animals and other wild life that are in country as well. Just in half a days work we have seen over 340 people at one of the medical sites we have set up. By the time we are done at this stop we will have seen over 5,000 patients including our dental, optical, and pharmacy clinics we have set up.
From some of the photo’s we have so far, and that I’ll try to upload here, you can see the vehicles going ashore from the boat, Vets taking care of the local animals from dogs to cows, and even officer promotions on the USMC side.
I've been trying to load this one page to put this post up for 20minutes.. refresh after refresh, what ever happen to Accellerate Your Life?

Now moving away from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo). We were restricted of course to one side of the island, with a few rules that we had to obied by. No going out alone, be back on ship by midnight, no public intoxication of course, and the best of all NO PICTURES... Grrrr
It was nice to see another or part of another naval base. We all had time to go by the NEX and buy them out of everything that would could ask for while we are out here so that helped. I guess I could have gotten another thing or two of powered french vanilla creamer though. lol
I'm sure I'll find pictures of Gitmo somewhere if I look hard enough.... Maybe next post I can pull some off.
We did have some great or yet amazing work that was conducted on this trip. Our Embarked Seabee's redid some roofs for churches and schools, our medical and dental team to include an army medical team seen over 10,000 patients during the 10days we were at Port De Paix.

It's everything you see on TV and then some. Those who literally can not help themselves, no health care at all, no real potable water like we have, no sewer system, and really the whole nine.

With such organizations as:

Project Hope, RN Response Network, The Greitens Group Foundation, Give a Kid A Backpack, and the Baptist Health of South Florida are all contributors to our mission.

These people from all over the US join here aboard the Uss Iwo-Jima and spend long days to be on the shores to help people learn proper sanitation, general health, and many more topics on how to live longer. So many more things to come as our next stop is Covenas, Colombia and this time I'll have a camera to upload some personal shots of the area that surrounds us while we are out here and things we are doing to help some of those in need here on Continuing Promise 2010.