Josh began Introductory Flight Screening (IFS- I thought it was introductory flight school- whoops!) 2 weeks ago. He has had some very long days, as he would work during the day and then go to "ground school" (lectures) at night. About a week ago, we heard from someone who works with assigning Temporary Assignment Duty Ensigns (that's what Josh is right now until he goes to Pensacola) that Josh was an "anomaly" in the office and that he had slipped through the cracks....What did they mean?!
Well, because Josh had such a late flight school date and not many other people had this date (Dec 12), they had decided they would send Josh to Florida NOW and have him do his IFS in Florida and then just wait down there until he could begin flight school.
HOWEVER, much to our relief (because the whole reason for his late flight school date was to be able to stay with me in Maryland while I finish my Master's degree), because he had begun IFS the week that he did (when they were deciding this), they decided to allow him to stay here until his original date.
As if that isn't enough excitement....some other happenings in Josh's work life are:
...today he will go on his first flight
...he has been reassigned to a new job for his temporary duty (he isn't assigned to the Rifle team anymore because so many temporary duty Ensigns have left so they have rearranged the jobs of those who are still left)- we are actually both happy about this as he will be getting home in time for a much more reasonable dinner hour! His new job is still a little fuzzy but it looks like he will be doing something for the new sports building and running "remedials" in the early afternoon (something for people who haven't met the required fitness levels yet). In his "spare" time, he will also be getting flying hours in....he will need to fly 25 or so hours in the next 2 weeks! And he will need to "Solo" by 13 hours into his training.
Well, I think that is enough for now!
See below for a fun picture of Josh when he began at the Academy on a rifle trip :)
Rifle trip youngster year
Josh shooting in standing
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