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Saturday, August 14, 2010

My First Couple of Month in Hawaii

Well, as all of you know, I am stationed here in Oahu, Hawaii onboard the USS Hopper (DDG70).  I will be here until June of 2013 and then will transfer hopefully back to the east coast.  I think for the few months I have been here, I have spent more time underway than on land.  But it was nice to finally get back to a ship.  The truth was I was really starting to miss it.  I am still working on all my qualifications and have a long way to go while try to complete them.  The big one is going to be my ESWS qual that has to be done in 18 months.  It sounds like a long time to accomplish it, but believe me when I say it is harder that it seems.

We pulled in at the beginning of August for a month underway doing our part in RIMPAC 2010.  Dont really care to do another one of those again.  To me, it was a wast of money spending that much time out to see when we were not doing anything but going back and forth around Hawaii.  Will also be heading out a couple more times before the end of September for a few weeks here and there.

For adventuring around Oahu, I have really had much of a chance to do to many things, but have gotten one hike in and also went to North Shore and also to the NorthWest side of the island.  I didnt know there were so many homeless people here on the island.   Makes you open  your eyes to what is going on around the United States.

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