Oh, well, gee I suppose I should talk to the folks sometime...
Things have been busy and crazy as usual. I've worked more 12, 14 hour days than is entirely healthy... this last week we've been working 10 hours every weekday and 10-5 on Saturday as well. Still nowhere close to catching up. The chief problem is that the previous BMETs were pencil-whipping a lot of things, or just ignoring them outright. I can't tell you how many pieces of equipment have outdated information or are completely lacking in calibration. And the programs and shop continuity, oy. All I can say is that the new NCOIC is really on top of her game and is working her rear end to make sure that my supervisor and I aren't pouring our work in a hole. The place will be shipshape in a few months, it's just hell getting there.
Oh, and of course, the end of the fiscal year has dried up everything, from parts to equipment to furniture to *shipping* to emergency repairs that have already been performed and the fixed equipment is sitting in a warehouse 6000 miles away... sigh. Congress hasn't signed a new budget, so even when November rolls around we'll be operating at 80% of last year's spending. I've got critical emergency response equipment just SITTING on my shelf because I can't send it out, because we don't have emergency funding approved from central yet. I've got equipment that's been recalled, that will be repaired for FREE, but I can't ship it out through the military mail system because we don't have the new department codes from finance. It's just madness, everywhere. We're not fixing equipment, we're performing triage and Frankenstinian cannibalization, and liquifying broken equipment to be fed intravenously to the living... no wait, that's what the machines do to the humans. Right. Riiight. I think, I think... They... are plotting against me :narroweyes:
On a lighter note, largely in light of my being the only shop BMET last month, I made Airman of the Quarter for the medical group, so, yay me! And then about a week ago, I get a call out of the blue from one of the loggies- "yeah, there's this cultural tour being offered to recent award winners, do you want to go? We need to know now, because the suspense was uh, 3 hours ago." My shop NCOIC gave the ok, so this Wed-Fri I get to go on a Hyundai Motors sponsored tour of all kinds of nifty Korean temples and museums and yes, car factories. Pretty nifty. I'm just glad to finally get a few days out of here. It's not that the rural location has been getting me down, but the grind has just been killing me. Can you believe it has been six months now? I'll definitely get you some photos from the trip.
I won't even tell you about today, just know that it involved hours of MOPP 4 even though we're not in an exercise... ugh.
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