Thank you!

To keep this blog anonymous, I do not post any names. But there are certain people who have been supportive and made this process easier for me.
Thank you to my recruiter. You are awesome, and even though we annoyed each other at times and filled out a thousand papers together, I love you to death! You are not only my recruiter through this but you are also one of my closest friends. Please thank Chief R and Chief W for me as well. They are some of the most awesome people I have ever met and I couldn't have done this without them.
Thank you to my mom. Mom, I couldn't haved made this decision without your support and love. I am going to miss you so much in boot camp. Take care of my doggies for me and give them plenty of love.
To JH- Thank you for being there throughout my entire life. Even though you questioned my motives about enlisting, you were just looking out for me. Thank your family for me too. I feel proud knowing I have their support.
To my Military Guy- This is only the beginning. Thank you for being supportive and giving me an idea of military life. And helping to reassure me that I did indeed make the right decision. XOXO


I love each and every one of you! And I WILL see you all again very soon!!

XOXO

Serena

LEAVING FOR BOOT CAMP

I went to MEPS Wednesday to sign my contract. My job will be AZ E-3. Aviation Maintenance Administrator. Basically, I will be keeping the logs on flight hours, and the books on the maintenance being done on the planes. I will be working closely with the jet mechanics and pilots. I am so excited. I talked with my cheif the entire wayout there and he got me an early ship date. I ship out to boot camp MONDAY! I am spending only 5 days in DEP. Everyone else that signed their contracts that day got ship dates for July 2010, so I feel really lucky and grateful that I got a ship date so early. I am completely unprepared psychically, but thats okay. I'll just give it all I've got when I get there. I'm so excited to be leaving so soon, but I have so much to do around the house. My mom and I went shopping to get everything I need for boot. I had to get white full booty panties, white bras and sports bras, etc. I won't be blogging for a while, but my mom and everyone else is going to save my letters, that way I can type them and post them when I get back. It's really perfect timing, because i'll be in boot camp August and September. Then I go to "A" school in Meridian, Mississippi for 8 weeks (October and November). Then I get leave and can be home for Christmas and my birthday. I am so excited. By the end of September, I will be a true American sailor! Wish me luck!!

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There are certain people in my life, that are not very supportive of my decision to join the military. Now, I don't expect everyone I meet to be 100% on board. It is a very extreme and serious decision. But, if you can at least listen to what I have to say and agree that I'm not making this decision uninformed or without insight. I know very well what I'm getting myself into. And honestly, I can't wait. For someone to say, that I shouldn't join is stupid, immature and selfish. And why be such a jerk about it and rain on my parade anyhow? This is something I'm excited about and proud to do. I'm doing this because I can. Because I want to, and because you don't have enough balls to do it yourself. It's the most honorable job in the world, and one should be proud to begin this journey. I know I am.

MEPS Day 2

I had a dream that night that I woke up super late at 11:00. And I had my dogs in the hotel room with me. I thought, "Oh my God. Where am I going to hide my dogs during MEPS? I'm going to be in so much trouble." When I woke up and looked at the clock it was 3:30am. Okay time to get up. I washed my face in the sink (I took a shower the night before) and put on some makeup. I was trying to find the morning news on the television and Jimmy Kimmel was on....I was so confused. Where is the news? Oh yeah! Its way to early....I was so not used to this. My roommate and I made small talk as we got ready. We then packed up our things, and headed down to the lobby to check out. We checked out and then went to the restaurant for breakfast. I had sausage and potatoes. It was actually a nice breakfast. But then again, breakfast food is always good. =) Only one problem. NO COFFEE. "Oh these people are monsters", I thought. After breakfast we headed to our buses. Some people were shipping out that morning and the rest of us were on our way to MEPS for the medical exams. At MEPS we were given stickers with our names on them. We took a hearing test, a vision test (which included a section on colorblindness), a urinalysis (to check for drugs, pregnancy, sugar and protein), had our blood pressure checked and a blood test. We also had two interviews with the doctors (a preliminary and a final). We also had a psychical which we stripped down to our bra and panties and did all kinds of silly exercises to make sure our arms and legs worked.They also took our height and weight. After the psychical we had individual consultations with the female doctor. She checked out noses, ears and throat. She poked and prodded our bellys as well. She also checked to make sure we were actually female. Our medical exams went by pretty quickly, because there were only 12 females. There were 55 men, so I had to wait for the other Vegas Navy recruit before we could leave. I passed medical. I was super happy. The other recruit, had high blood pressure. Another Air Force girl had to go get an Echo because the doctor thought he heard an irregular heartbeat. So, I was pretty happy when I passed. After medical, we headed back to Vegas where I asked our driver a thousand or so questions about the Navy. By the time I got home I was so exhausted. I think the most stressful thing about the entire MEPS experience, was being away from home. It was only 2 days, but I missed my mom and my dogs so much. Yes, I'm 28 years old and I missed my mommy. I can only imagine how hard boot camp will be.

MEPS day 1

MEPS in one word: Stressful. We drove from Vegas to San Diego. I woke up around 5:30 on Wednesday morning, to get ready and wait for my recruiter to pick me up. We drove to the Summerlin recruiting office to meet with my driver and another Navy recruit, who would also be traveling with us. I was so anxious the night before I maybe got an hour and a half of sleep. I studied in the car on the way there, and played car games with the driver (another recruiter) and the other recruit. We arrived at MEPS and registered with the front desk. They took our photos and fingerprints. We then took the ASVAB. I was so nervous about this test. But when I got in I realized that it was a lot easier than I imagined. I breezed through it super quick. Afterwards, my results were sealed in an envelope, that I was to give to my recruiter and not open. I immediately ran to the bathroom to open my envelope. I scored a 79 on my exam. I was very pleased. Afterwards, I had to wait until everyone finished the exam. We then made our way to the shuttle that took us to our hotel. A lot of people were really young and energetic. I have no idea where they got all this energy from! I just drove 5 and half hours on maybe 2 hours of sleep, to take a test that was super long. We were given our room keys and our meal tickets and told that we had a hotel briefing at 8pm. I got to my room at 7:30 and called my mom to tell her how I did. After getting settled in, it was time for the hotel meeting. They went over basic rules. Curfew at 10pm, no girls in guys rooms and vice versa, wake up call at 4am, bus leaves at 5:15. Basically a lot of stuff that I thought was pretty common sense besides the times which were given to us anyway with our room key. After the briefing, I went to the hotel restaurant and ate dinner. After dinner, I went back up to my hotel room (9:30ish). By the time my roommate arrived back in our room I was dead asleep. It was the end of a very long day and I was glad that it was finally over!

MEPS

I am FINALLY going to MEPS tomorrow. I'm really nervous, but happy to finally get it out of the way. I won't be able to choose a job tomorrow, because the Navy hasn't refilled its job bank, but at least I'll get the test and exam out of the way.