25OCT09

"Juliet-182 Act V" or "Rough Seas"

Imagine being in a canoe 16 feet long, 4.5 feet wide, with 73 strangers in the dead center of the ocean as if you were dropped there from the heavens. Each person given an oar and a map, and told "now make it home." If you can imagine that, than welcome to recruit training. Now, we were rowing along just fine, shore line in sight, until out of nowhere, a cruise liner tagged "USS  Week 06" came by and destroyed our course heading. Now, when we started this, everyone wanted to stay dry. Now we're soaking wet. So, we've got to pull ourselves together, get back in our rickety old boat, and get back on the path to dry land. We know that we can do it, we just have to acquiesce the task at hand. Not surreptitiously, but abruptly and with "snap." We have to realize our potential, like...now! Because right now, that's all it's turned out to be. Potential. Ever heard this melody? "You've got to live a little. You've got to die a little, break down and cry a little. That's the story of, that's the glory of love." Now, have we died a little? That's for sure. Have we cried a little? Probably more than a little. Yesterday, we more than lived a little. So, now we personify a novel, sweating enthusiasm and tasking exuberance. But our exuberance faltered because we were drinking from the fountain of liberty too early. Now that our bellies are full, our minds content, and our hearts at peace with just being here, we know we can make it. We just have to execute our plan of action. Everyone should be jealous. For example, if Juliet was a sports team, Chief Ruchser, our "coach," would be like Phil Jackson or Bill Belecheck, the absolute best in our humble opinion. So, does that mean the lower echelon coaches of the world walk around all the time with a chip on their shoulders? Maybe. Everyone wants to beat the best, but we are unbreakable. Through all the technical difficulties and the hard times, we have maintained our respect for each other. A tight knit group, close we've become and though we will disband soon, close we will remain. If you give a mouse a cookie he is going to want a glass of milk, and if you give Juliet liberty, probably gonna want a week off. Knowing that's not possible, we are going to do everything we can to ensure that we get off base liberty. We have plenty of practicals and finalizations to recruit training in this upcoming week 07 that will prove to be challenging. Knowing this company, difficult usually takes a day impossible takes a week, and we will succeed.

We are Juliet-182.

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