Dusty, dirty!

About two hours ago, I'm walking to my CHU I stop and realize, It's sunny! It's sunny! I must be losing it, I was walking to chow an hour earlier, why did I just notice now? And what is the big deal about sunny weather? Well, we had a huge dust storm last night. It was disgusting, it was everywhere, we had to wear masks, it was pretty ridiculous as you can see in the pictures. I don't know, the dust is different here,is it sand or dust? All I know is it was a pain in the butt. I had another moment where I got to say, "sign him up." It had to do with him not having a "clear to fly stamp" on his LOA. We use to be able to clear contractors to fly but now higher powers that be thinks we need a specialist to do this. It's a joke, they don't check anything more then what we did, check passport, LOA, passport information matches on LOA bamb! Anyways this guys had to wait till 7am for the specialist to come in and his flight was landing in 30 minutes. I could've easily said, no cutting it too close but I took a chance. it worked, we weren't late and we got a guy on his way home, mission accomplished. But this whole thing with having to hire a contractor to do our job, it's wasting taxpayers money. it drives me crazy, maybe I don't see numbers that higher ranks see but it just keep adding up and up and up. We're renting out our dam X-ray machine for like 9 grand a month so we get the maintnence, just buy the thing for 100k.

I mean, I'm not losing sleep over it but our economy is in bad enough shape as it is. It's frustrating, I'm looking at the school district websites back home and there are no high school history jobs at all, I want to teach high shcool, not another year of 8th grade. But that's our economy for ya, and I would rather teach 8th grade then be unemployed. When I see in my opinion inneficient use of government money, it all seems to come around in circles.

I rarely watch t.v out here, but the AFN is getting on my last nerve with their public announcements. They don't have commercials just these do this, and do that commercials. I saw two back to back at the gym, one on not skipping meals at lunchtime so you don't bing eat and the other was always wear safety equipment when playing competitive sports. They make like real commercials, complete with actors and special effects. I never thought i'd say this but because I have always hated commercials since I was a kid but I can't wait till when I don't have to lay my eyes on an Air force infomercial again