Vacation Announcement Thread

[Colosseum]

Why was it so bad? I had always been led to believe the week-long training for most of the state guard associations was fairly mild in comparison to other military training.

[emperor_andreas]

Because we had a Sergeant who decided that since we were in uniform for the week that we were Regular Army and that the 12 weeks of Basic Training should be crammed into 4 days. He had so many complaints about him that week that the higher-ups decided to demote him; he quit because he didn't want to be demoted. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Karma can be a major biz-notch.

[Kattsun]

Sounds like a genuinely helpful guy just being smacked by The Man.

[eswube]

Ok, now I'm speaking as someone who has never been in the army in the first place. But isn't the point of these reserve formations to have 12 weeks crammed into 4 days?

[heuhen]

You should be glad you are not in the Norwegian home guard!

[emperor_andreas]

We're not Army Reserve or National Guard...we're State Guard.

[Colosseum]

What kind of training were they having you do?

[heuhen]

Well I have holiday, so from 15 July I will be traveling to Hamburg (Germany), for fun. I need to get a little out of Norway for a bit. I will be in Hamburg in 2 week or so, so if there is anything a ship in Hamburg within my range, I'll can see if I can take an picture or two of it. I will also visit a ship/naval museum, so that will be fun.

I will be around since my hotel have inter"web", but what I use it to...

[heuhen]

Oh, if you know about an nice museum... Let me know.

... Back to that ice...

[Blackbuck]

I'll be away from the 18th until the 25th down in the Southwest. A whole week of sitting overlooking the Bristol Channel and watching steam trains.