Well it has been a 25 day journey so far and I have filled out more paper work in those 25 days than I have in the whole rest of my life.
- First was the whole interview process; Resumé and application
- New employee phase; acceptance letter, choosing all the benefit option from myriad of possibilities
- Phase three - My Secret security clearance process - filling out hundreds of pages (or so it seemed) of interview questions about me, my parents, my siblings, my wife, my children, all my travels for the past seven years (21 trips to 21 countries), may lack of connection to any terrorist organization, etc, etc, etc...
- Phase four - doing all the things needed to go to Fort Benning, GA for Conus Replacement Center (CRC) training - that is to get armyized. Here I get my dog tags, my IBA (individual body armor), my helmet and assorted other army issue stuff to keep me safe. I leave for CRC 4/10/09 for a days training they stuff into a week. To go I have to have a physical, from my doctor, eye doctor and my dentist and all the required shots, deet bug spray and permethrin spray that I have to spayed on my clothes every five days
- Phase five - training for my new job - Administrative Specialist for the Iraqi Flight School - Fixed Wing program. This is the phase were this old civilian get to learn three million new military acronyms and how the Army and Air Force to all things administrative. This phase has been a lot of fun as you can imagine.
- Phase six - deployment to Iraq sometime toward the end of April 09.
My next blog posting will be about the mission I will be part of in Iraq and my part of that mission. Future postings to look forward t:
- My Ft Benning experience
- My trip to IRAQ
- My first impressions of IRAQ
- More details about my job and the mission
- Other possibilities I may have after my first few months in IRAQ
- I'm sure I will have some funny stories I will post by then.
Stay tune!
