Believe it or not, the Army can be very bureaucratic. It's not uncommon to turn in the same form, to the same people multiple times and be asked each successive time, "Why didn't you turn these in?" Someone said to me the other day that the old saying, "The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing," isn't actually true for the Army. Instead, he posited, that it's more like, "The left hand doesn't know that the right hand exists." He's right. It's frustrating. Sometimes you'll have several different commands/organizations wanting several different things from you at once while simultaneously telling you to not worry about the other organization because theirs is the most important. We take it all in stride. CH Cline said the other day that they intended to push us in every way imaginable, even in our clerical skills. He's right. I imagine that after a career in the Army, I will be a more patient person...about some things. I'm also learning that the things that used to bug me (a lack of punctuality, a lack of organization, a lack of personal responsibility) bug me even more as the Army reinforces these. In the Army, we're a team, but we're also expected to be big boys and girls and make our own bed, get up at the right time, know your schedule, etc. There's a saying we use: right place, right time, right uniform. This will inevitably lead to a good day.
Okay, have to go set through some lectures and be yelled at. We like it here, we love it here, we finally found a home!
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