Posted By ebee on 04 May 2012 10:54 AM
Lurker - you are at a PSU, right? How are you liking it so far? Have you just been doing qualifications during your drill weekends?
Yep, I'm currently at PSU 307 and it's been so far, so good I suppose. I don't have any other experience with the Blue Guard so I don't know if life on the other side is better or not. It took a little getting used to but once I did, it's been fine. There isn't a lot of time during drill weekends to get the quals done so I was "lucky" to get deployed to Kuwait for 6 months. There, we had nothing but time to get any qual you wanted. As a result, I was boat crew, BTM, and tactical boat crew qualed before I left. It also allowed me to switch from shoreside to waterborne since I had all the necessary quals finished when I got back.
I've got more editorial comments to make about difficulty in getting quals done during drill weekend but this is neither the time nor the place (and is also way above my pay grade). Hope this helps anyway.