First Entry

Here it is, my first entry on a blog.

i wanted to do this awhile now but just forgot about it and really didnt have the time. its gonna be all about my life now in the marine corps so people can understand what it is like to be a marine. i was planning on writing right after bootcamp but i only had ten days and blogging was not on my mind. school has been preoccupying me so of course there was no time to blog then either. well i am out of school now finally so i have plenty of time to blog for now i think.

ill be hitting the fleet (my job) soon and from what i am told it is a 12 on 12 off job that i will have. there might be some encouraging from others to get me to come on here and update. there will be for sure. rachael (step mother) will most likely tell me to get on and blog because she is a bi time blogger herself and im sure she would love to know what i am up to.

i would love to tell you all what has happened to me in the past year but that would take me probably my whole leave to do that. so i can just recap a bit and if you want the details later let me know and i will write some up i guess. oh and if my military lingo is to much for you let me know and i will translate in civilian language for you lol.

here goes.. my last year in a glimpse:

July 7 to oct 3- i was at bootcamp on parris island, sc. it was hot most of the time i was there.. and pretty intense for the most part. i was separated from family, friends, my boyfriend at the time, my beloved cell phone and computer. it was a hard transition but obviously i made it through. leaving for the marine corps did change quite a bit in my life during these three months. i came home to a cheating boyfriend.. that was awesome.. and to friends that just didnt understand my new life style but thats ok. my family was very supportive... and YES i did dumb that nasty thing as soon as i got home.

oct14 to nov12- i was at mct (marine combat training) in camp geiger jacksonville, nc where again i was separated from any contact with the outside world for a month. there i learned how to shoot different guns and some combat training. and we got to be with the males finally. one thing that has surprised me most about the marine corps is that they are all about learning and knowledge.. it was classes after classes and i dont think i have ever slept as much in class in the corps then i did in high school. it was ridiculous..

Nov12-end of march- i had a a 14 hour bus ride from nc to pensacola fl. here is where i started my first part of training for my mos (my job in the corps). the class was about a month or more longer but it took forever for me to start classes here.. there was so many of us in my job (airframer). but here in pensacola is where i had a great time. i met new people from all over the place i wont forget. school here was hard. i ended up failing in one of my classes and was set back two weeks to pick up with another class. it was a disappointment for me when i found out my original class got the choice of aircraft that i wanted. but by far the best part of pcola was meeting my now boyfriend william knapp.. i had my eye on him the beginning i got there but thought he was totally outta my league. but in january we started talking and things progressed from there.. a little rocky at first but got better once we were out of pcola.. (that will be mentioned later) lets just say another female was in the way.. and that was the cause of all the problems. but anyways pcola was a time i will never forget.

end of march till june 9- well i graduated from pcola finally and chose the AV8-B harrier as my choice of aircraft to work on and it wasnt the wisest of choices but what everyone knows is i chose it for the place the school was located not the aircraft itself. william was sent to nc to go to school on his v-22 osprey aircraft a month before i graduated. and well my school for the harrier just so happened to be there in nc. so you see how my decision was made? and i dont regret it one bit. anyways... i started my 10 week course on my specific aircraft april 1 in MCAS cherry point nc and graduated june 3.. about 6 weeks in we were told where we will be stationed.. and well william is permanently stationed an hour from cherry point in new river, jacksonville, nc. so you all know nc was where i was hoping to be placed. well for my craft theres two places i can go... nc or az.. and where am i headed to....az... and believe me i was not a happy camper when i found this out. and telling william was the last thing i wanted to do. but i did. sooner, way sooner than i thought i would have. and he took it better than i thought. (this is where i am now mentioning what i said i would in the paragraph above) thats because his feelings changed for me completely since pcola.. he feel in love with me of course.. and he decided we will stick this out. while in nc i spent every weekend i possibly could with him.. and a week of my leave before i left to come home. let me tell you, its hard leaving him behind because im scared that things might change.. but i can only hope for the best. but besides making my relationship better i also met some awesome people while in nc.. from my student barracks at cherry point to williams fellow marines in his squadron. so many memories.

june 9 to current- well here i am right now sitting in nh at home in lovely sandown where i will be until the 24 of june when ill be off to hot ass yuma. im looking forward to a new experience of living on the west coast, meeting new people, and actually starting my career... and im not gonna lie im scared to see what the fleet is like. i have a hard job and long hours and heat to work in.. so my entries should be quite interesting. but right now my focus is on being home hanging out with the family and seeing close friends for the next two weeks. so i will blog when i get down to yuma..

oh and here is some pictures of the aircraft i work on and the one william works on so you all get an idea of what we work on..



this right here is the harrier.. it is the only aircraft that can hover. and what i am working on. it is ugly and a pain in the ass and i will have to learn to love it.



here is the v-22 osprey that william works on. it is quite dangerous as it tends to fall out of the sky very often.