that's right. i said skillzzzzzzzzzzz.
so now that i'm a sergeant i have to do counseling statements for the junior enlisted in my section. there's only two of 'em so it was kinda easy but it was still a formality that had to be done, and something i had never done before.
i'm pretty good at writing stuff. (believe it or not!) a little rough around the edges maybe about proper punctuation, grammars, etc. (i really don't like the oxford comma at all but find myself using it still sometimes unconsciously. see above.)
so it took me a little bit but i finally wrote out the counseling statements and forwarded them to the sergeant first class that has been helping me and is administratively next in my chain of command. he reviewed them and i will proudly say, said i did an excellent job. woop!
i feel that the actual counselings went well. it is a weird line to walk between being friends and also being a supervisor/leader but i think i manage pretty well. i also like to lead by example and really strive to set the standard and always behave professionally. (basically i am freaking awesome.)
i'm not sure if it was because the MP's only care about MP's but i was never looked at seriously for my leadership potential. i always felt brushed off and so began to feel like nothing i did mattered so why try. i did have a lot of freedom in that unit and i think that is because a lot of the senior leadership trusted my maturity and knew i had that level of professionalism. for my military career though, aviation has done more for me in the past 6 months than the MP's did in six years and it's pretty amazing.
i know it is deployment and it's not going to be the same when i get home, but right now i'm pretty happy with the army. the guard is something i'm good at and i'm finally being challenged and given responsibilities and respected for the job i do and praised for the results i get.
talking more and more about it i am leaning towards staying in.......
i know, i know. i was dead set on getting out. the whole reason to deploy was to set myself up nice-nice to get out and get on with my "real life".
but thinking about it and all the benefits and the fact that i've basically been full time my whole career has made me seriously consider staying in.
i joined the guard, went through basic and medic school, came home, went right into deployment mode, deployed, came back and had a couple months off. then i started working full-time for the 169th and then got my technician job and now this deployment. (i thrive on deployment though...)
the military has been 90% of my life for my entire career. i'm thinking that if i switch that, if the military is only 10% of my life, one weekend a month and two weeks out of the year, it won't be so bad. i can do crazy things with my hair because i'll only have to put it up within regulation two days a month. i can travel and play derby and FINALLY go to college and get a degree which was the whole reason i joined in the first place!
with the 100% tuition coverage, the health insurance, retirement benefits and slowing deployment tempo i am seriously thinking that it won't be as bad as before. i can focus on my civilian life and use the guard as a tool and take what i have learned and apply it to my life. i have to make this choice by the end of july as there is a pending $10,000 tax free bonus in it for me...hmmmm.
everything else is falling into place though.
i bought my ticket for thailand this week.
bella has hers.
and ace is getting hers next week!
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| yeah. i'm going there. |
a tigers game.
massages!
beer.beer.beer.
dancing.
more beer.
karaoke!!!!
then i come back and only about 3 1/2 months until i'm back for good.
how time flies!!!
wub.wub.wub.wub. <3
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