Day one...

well, i'm in the middle of work on my first night. we pulled out of port at about 0900 today, at which point i was in bed. i've been put on night crew along with two cpl's, cpl davis, and cpl amador.
ship life's cramed like crazy! our racks are stacked three high, they are each about 6.5 feet long, 2.5 feet wide, and about 2 feet tall. we've got lockers built in under our beds to keep most of our personal stuff, then we've got a small florecent bulb and a single outlet above our heads. the racks are branched out off of hallways in a berthing area, these branches are two racks deep, with 3 stack on top of eachother on either side, so there are 12 marines stuffed into one small section. it's pretty crushed space, but it's livable. there's a small lounge room that has a few tables and a bunch of chairs. one of our gysgt's installed a flat screen tv in there, so that'll make life nicer. we've got the gym one floor above us, so it's easy to go work out.
you'd think that since we are asked to put our lives on the line for this countries goals, we would be provided with good food... but that's definetly not the case! haha one of the meals today was ravioli, hot dogs, and re-heated shrimp. none of these tasted like it was supposed to... i can't really descibe it that well. i guess the best i can do is, leave some shrimp out of the freezer for a day or so, the freeze it, then cook it, then re-heat it, then feed it to people... this is the way that mostly all our food is. i think i speak for pretty much everyone i know on here when i say that it's not so hott stuff. but this food'll seem good in compairison to what's going to be coming later on, this i know for sure!
well, it feels great to know that we're going in a strait line to a specific place! the work-ups that we were required to go on where depressing because all we'd be doing is sailing in circles off the coast of camp pendalton. it's a lot more fun to know that we're actually headed somewhere!
well, until next time.