Today started with some warm-ups and a run at 6 AM. The rest of the day was spent sitting around waiting in lines to get various bureaucrats to check us out. The Army has a plethora of requirements that must be met before it will let us go on a combat deployment. I am good in all but one area. I do have to say that the staggering amount of wasted paper and forms being filled out over and over disgusts me. When will the military modernize it’s system of tracking soldiers? This stuff should ALL be electronic by now. It’s wasteful, costly and inefficient to continuously reprocess information on paper that should be stored electronically and widely available for appropriate use.
I’m coming down with a case of the Camp Atterbury Crud and it’s making me tired and incoherent. I’ll blog more once I’ve recovered. Right now, draining my throat and taking care of the smallpox injection site is going to be all I can muster.