All this weekend (a long one for our platoon) I had exactly nothing I wished to post about. Just couldn¡¯t muster a strong enough emotion to write about. I knew I could count on work to provide me with something but I just didn¡¯t count on it being as early as 0630!

            Some of you out there know that our current First Sergeant (SFC Manatee) is not exactly the model of a modern major-general. Perpetually incompetent at virtually any task, always looks like 10 pounds of chewed bubble gum stuffed into a 5 pound bag, and to top it off she continuously wears her beret like a chefs hat. Couple this with a well intentioned lady and you have our First Sergeant.

            Last week she took our Fat Camp Instructor SPC Ecstatic to task because he didn¡¯t go through a rather pointless series of movement commands to march our small group from the company assembly area to our actual work out field. Instead he just fell us out and told us where to re-form. Of course she publicly lambasted him for this despite the fact that she routinely fucks up the simplest of D&C commands. I chalked this up to another in her long string of inconsistencies.

            This morning however I had to exert all of my willpower to keep in the laughter as I saw the totally bewildered expression on her face as it dawned on her that out entire Electronic Maintenance Platoon had not shown up for work! The fact that they didn¡¯t even have enough regard for her to tell this was to be the case is funny all alone but that she didn¡¯t notice until after the morning report was delivered was the straw that threatened to break to back of my military bearing camel. I can¡¯t wait for the rest of today.

P.S. To SSG Smiley, If you are in a unit that is deployed please never lead into a conversation with ¡°We lost a contractor¡¦¡± when you really mean, ¡°A contractor got fired.¡± Damn near had a heart attack until you explained.