In addition, Wednesday marked the first work day of the month, so I had to do the monthly unit status report (USR). This alone took up four hours of my afternoon/evening. That day I also had to write up the week's "storyboards" -- PowerPoint slides with pictures of cool stuff we did.
On Thursday I had to report the USR results to my boss and begin drawing up the quarterly training brief (QTB). This is a PowerPoint slide desk of where we're at in our training statistics and what we're planning to do with the next three months.
On Friday morning, we gave the QTB to the boss, then went back to the office for revisions. Though as the day before the Chuseok three-day weekend we wanted to release our people at 3:00 (so they can beat "traffic hell"), we still had a lot of tasks to finish up, so that plan was shot.
The sergeant major had some "area beautification" (yard work) that had to be done, the S1 had records reviews, the S3 needed the QTB revisions, and we still had to do up the "Community Health Promotion Council" (CHPC) slides for the brigade surgeon cell.
The CHPC slides were actually due on the 3rd, but nobody in the battalion realized that fact because that detail was quietly buried in the text of the brigade officer's Outlook appointment request. So -- of course -- that had to be done right now, as if we didn't already have enough to worry about.
One thing that I should have taken care of today but didn't was the "Risk Reduction" PowerPoint slides that we'll review on Tuesday. I'll have to turn those in this weekend, which I feel bad for our chaplain about (the chaplain is the one who compiles them).
Yet even in hindsight, I didn't really have a chance to get to it. I got ordered to push everyone living in Daegu (which includes me) out by 5:00 in order to beat the Chuseok traffic.
It's funny -- the Army forces these holidays on us, but it doesn't really give us any rest. The ever-present grind of the brigade's requirements press on....
Thursday, September 04, 2014
A short, crazy week -- Requirements
Because of the Labor Day holiday, this week was pretty short -- only three days. However, that didn't mean it wasn't any less crazy.
"Recovery" was among our highest priorities, since the company returned from the field on Thursday the 28th. (Field exercises require a unit to pull out a lot of equipment; recovery is where you clean and put away all your stuff.) Unfortunately, this being a headquarters company in a sustainment brigade, the staff sections were pressed to get back to their normal operating schedules, so getting personnel from them to complete the task was like pulling teeth.
In addition, Wednesday marked the first work day of the month, so I had to do the monthly unit status report (USR). This alone took up four hours of my afternoon/evening. That day I also had to write up the week's "storyboards" -- PowerPoint slides with pictures of cool stuff we did.
On Thursday I had to report the USR results to my boss and begin drawing up the quarterly training brief (QTB). This is a PowerPoint slide desk of where we're at in our training statistics and what we're planning to do with the next three months.
On Friday morning, we gave the QTB to the boss, then went back to the office for revisions. Though as the day before the Chuseok three-day weekend we wanted to release our people at 3:00 (so they can beat "traffic hell"), we still had a lot of tasks to finish up, so that plan was shot.
The sergeant major had some "area beautification" (yard work) that had to be done, the S1 had records reviews, the S3 needed the QTB revisions, and we still had to do up the "Community Health Promotion Council" (CHPC) slides for the brigade surgeon cell.
The CHPC slides were actually due on the 3rd, but nobody in the battalion realized that fact because that detail was quietly buried in the text of the brigade officer's Outlook appointment request. So -- of course -- that had to be done right now, as if we didn't already have enough to worry about.
One thing that I should have taken care of today but didn't was the "Risk Reduction" PowerPoint slides that we'll review on Tuesday. I'll have to turn those in this weekend, which I feel bad for our chaplain about (the chaplain is the one who compiles them).
Yet even in hindsight, I didn't really have a chance to get to it. I got ordered to push everyone living in Daegu (which includes me) out by 5:00 in order to beat the Chuseok traffic.
It's funny -- the Army forces these holidays on us, but it doesn't really give us any rest. The ever-present grind of the brigade's requirements press on....
In addition, Wednesday marked the first work day of the month, so I had to do the monthly unit status report (USR). This alone took up four hours of my afternoon/evening. That day I also had to write up the week's "storyboards" -- PowerPoint slides with pictures of cool stuff we did.
On Thursday I had to report the USR results to my boss and begin drawing up the quarterly training brief (QTB). This is a PowerPoint slide desk of where we're at in our training statistics and what we're planning to do with the next three months.
On Friday morning, we gave the QTB to the boss, then went back to the office for revisions. Though as the day before the Chuseok three-day weekend we wanted to release our people at 3:00 (so they can beat "traffic hell"), we still had a lot of tasks to finish up, so that plan was shot.
The sergeant major had some "area beautification" (yard work) that had to be done, the S1 had records reviews, the S3 needed the QTB revisions, and we still had to do up the "Community Health Promotion Council" (CHPC) slides for the brigade surgeon cell.
The CHPC slides were actually due on the 3rd, but nobody in the battalion realized that fact because that detail was quietly buried in the text of the brigade officer's Outlook appointment request. So -- of course -- that had to be done right now, as if we didn't already have enough to worry about.
One thing that I should have taken care of today but didn't was the "Risk Reduction" PowerPoint slides that we'll review on Tuesday. I'll have to turn those in this weekend, which I feel bad for our chaplain about (the chaplain is the one who compiles them).
Yet even in hindsight, I didn't really have a chance to get to it. I got ordered to push everyone living in Daegu (which includes me) out by 5:00 in order to beat the Chuseok traffic.
It's funny -- the Army forces these holidays on us, but it doesn't really give us any rest. The ever-present grind of the brigade's requirements press on....
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