so yesterday we had an all hands enlisted meeting for members of NORAD, NORTHCOM, and STRATCOM. a 3 star general for the army came in and gave some speech to us for about an hour. at the end he asked who was 22 and younger so me and like 8 others stood up. then he asked who was 21 and younger and it was me and some air force female. i looked around and said well ooh rah to us. right after i say that hes like oh good you can have the first question Marine. i wa slike fuck man i had to open my mouth. i stood there for about 2-3 minutes while people were making little comments like oh you had to open your mouth and oh he froze now. mind you it was about 80-100 enlisted people in there. then i asked him what in the morning is the one thing he looks forward to in his day, every day. he was like oh good question, sit down Marine. he answered then went on to others. now the military has this thing for giving coins when some one deserves slight recognition and little things like that. well the SgtMaj of the enlisted forces for NORAD, NORTHCOM, and STRATCOM, gave the 3 star a coin and was like i hope this doesn't end up in the box of coins you have. the general then said i'll make sure it goes some place better, where is that young Marine who asked me that first question, i stood up and said here sir then he was like well come on up here. once i got there he proceeded to give me the coin and shake my hand and tell me how its good to see young people like me willing to serve our country and things like that. it was pretty cool. as he walked out with an E-9 for the Marines he told the E-9 that was the best damn question he had been asked in his 30 years. how cool is that. then on my way out with my sgt an air force sgt gave us both another coin. my sgt for the years of work he had done there and me for the years of work i will do there. 2 coins in 30 minutes, cool shit.

today when that little plane broke the no fly zone it was kind of cool. i was in the air warning center when it happened and watched everyone jump around and work to find out who that guy was. thats where they track air craft around the no fly areas. on the news they said they were talking to NORAD and NORTHCOM which was cool because i was inside the mountain at those places. kind of neat i guess. i have two flight suites now and a coat that i wear and i work on shifts starting sunday. i work 6 days and get 4 off. i also have an apartment picked out which i should move into soon. also found out my pros and cons will go up a lot here even though they are already good and i should pick up cpl pretty soon as long as i stay out of trouble.

alrighty thats it for now.

cool stuff