Working hard, that's the Marine Corps way. We've got big troop lifts of Korean Marines for the next couple of days, and that's going to kick us hard. American Marine infantrymen are bad about abusing the safety gear. But at least we can yell at them in English and they'll understand. The Koreans may take better care as they feel like guests, but we have more trouble explaining what they need to do to care for it.

Then, the Quality Assurance shop realized that they hadn't done any audits for a while. As a CD/QAR, I work for them too, not just my shop. I got tossed the Maintenance Control/Maintenance Admin audit, which is the longest and most difficult one. No, I'm not exaggerating there, it's 27 pages long, 20 questions per page, and each question requires reading some cryptic manuals and looking over paperwork that I've never encountered before. So that's consuming many hours, and I have to get it done by Friday.

Then there's the cruise book, essentially the yearbook for the MEU. I've got 41 pages to fill. That's not "we", that's "me", because this was dropped on my lap and I've got basically no support. It's looking like I'm going to have to take all the shop photos, too. No worries though- I've got to get it all done by the end of the week.

Some of the guys wonder why I'm getting out, because I'm not visibly bitter like a lot of people counting the days until their enlistment ends. I'm not bitter- I love the Corps, and I'm proud of my accomplishments. But there are two ways to be a Marine- cruise by, or charge hard. I'm not good at maintaining a low visibility to cruise, but the charging is just wearing me out. But part of that's the MEU. If we hadn't "volunteered" to extend, I'd've probably signed reenlistment papers by now.

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