I HATE PAPERWORK

The surest indicator that deployment is coming to an end is the paperwork. Here I sit trying to write Fitness Reports in THREE different languages: Navy, Marine, and Army. I am also writing awards for those whom I deem worthy in a FOURTH language: Joint. My Bride was gritchen the other day that she didn't think she could handle another month and a half. My reply was "Only a month and a half, that's not nearly enough time to get my admin done!". She was less than sympathetic. On top of all the personnel maintenance admin I have to get done, I still need to write some pass down SOPs for the lucky smuck who will relieve me. One of the hurdles I had to face was that the "previous regime" kept no records (probably to protect the guilty) so as a result I had to re-learn alot of lessons and make my own tribal knowledge. I ain't gonna do that to the next guy. He or she will know where the bodies are buried and what the actual procedures to accomplish things are. Trouble is: I HATE PAPERWORK! As I look out at the vast amount of administrative torture that lies before me, one of those "Rules To Live By" pops into mind: Never do today what you can put off 'til tomorrrow. Oh well, this stuff just ain't gonna go away and I certainly ain't gonna let my troopers down. They have done an outstanding job in spite of me:), they deserve to be rewarded and I will do whatever is necessary (short of an unnatural sex act) to do right by them.

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD