Tornado week!

This last week has been hellacious! We had a two day conference that my section decided to put together books for. Great product planned, poor steps planned. We kept changing what was going in the books, where, making corrections that should have been made long ago, right up until the day of the conference start. We had wanted to start assembling the books last Thursday, but didn't start printing til Friday, and had to keep restarting because of changes. In the end, with lots of hard work from all of us, we got the books done and got lots of kudos from the people at the conference. But we are all ready for a break, but we are going into Drill weekend next. Which includes an APFT for me... yeck. I have not been exercising as often as I should have, and not nearly as hard as I need to in order to pass. My body still feels sluggish, weak and painful, especially on the colder mornings.

But next month I don't have to do to Drill weekend. My big brother is getting married, and now that I have a new first line leader - oh, yea, did I mention that? - instead of being released early to go home and change and hope I make it in time, I have been approved leave for the weekend. YAY!! I am very happy about that. That means I can sleep in, have plenty of time to shower, change, etc, make it to the wedding, stay as late as I want to, go home and sleep in to recover from the festivites. And my family knows how to party!!!

But, as I mentioned, I have a new first line leader. And surprisingly, it is not a matter of they are just shifting around personnel. She was removed from my chain of command because of poor performance. I am not surprised that they considered her performance poor, but that they actually removed her for it. But when an NCO tells you one day that she is considering leaving active duty because she is sick of the unit, too (oh, yea, she was here six months, while I was here eighteen months at that time) and then the next day she is not even asking your side of a story but jumping you for doing something wrong and telling you she ain't gonna lose her job for no one... yea, not my type of leader. Can we say attention grabbing, self centered private behavior? Not the bahavior of a leader. My real leaders would have asked me what happened - regardless of threats made by more senior personnel about their careers in regards to me - and addressed with me how we were going to handle the entire situation, wether I did something wrong, or not and how to protect myself from outside attacks. I am ready to leave here.