Cross Into The Future

I updated my previous post so that the links that I listed are now clickable. Enjoy! Also, here is a neat website I ran into one day. Have fun watching the videos posted here:

Do Something Amazing

Looks like some changes might be taking place in S.W.A.T.S. (Satellite Wideband and Telemetry Space Systems). As far as I know right now, the school is considering taking two of the blocks out of the twelve block course. These blocks also happen to be the hardest blocks in the course! Hopefully these changes will take place in time for my class to take advantage of them. Eventually the S.W.A.T.S. course will be merged with Ground Radio to combine both job fields. This course will be moved to Keesler AFB, the base where I took EP and the base where Ground Radio is currently being taught. Both of the current courses are in the process of being rewritten, and our teacher showed us a draft course outline which will be 23 blocks long. This could be good for us and it could be really bad for us. The good would be if they let us take advantage of the course precompression so that we can skip a few blocks and graduate early. Then we would be sent back by our assigned unit to get the updated CDC’s or specific training on the radio equipment we will be working on. The bad would be if they made us go through the current S.W.A.T.S. course and then come back to take the updated, combined course. If the latter happens, one benefit would be that by the time I got out of the Air Force and applied for a civilian job, I would have had so much training that I could pretty much be guaranteed a job making well over six figures! Chances are good though that my course will be the former case or some variation of it.

It is getting colder here, which makes morning PC pretty rough. My knee flared up from an old high school injury, but it seems to be doing better. So far everything is on par for me to phase up to phase 4, which is my last phase up stage. I will then be more free to get my stuff done on the weekends. I have had a tough time making everything fit into a tight schedule and an extended weekend curfew will be nice!

Every day it seems like Georgia is feeling more like “home” (away from home). Moving never was my favorite pasttime, but the military saw fit to drag me around the country for a while. I can’t complain because it’s free; I will just be glad to be able to settle down for a while in more comfortable quarters.