hey!

Just so ya know, I will be calling tomorrow afternoon! So look for some weird number to come up on your cell phone! ps Im getting some good footage for yall using my camcorder! talk to ya tomorrow!

Dutch part 2

Well we are back in Dutch for a few days, we pulled in around noon and I have duty today. Tomorrow I shall head to the Grand Aleutian Hotel for a little R&R. Here are some pictures from the patrol so far! Enjoy!

The PaPa Flag

So there is this flag that is raised to the top of the boat when I ships personel is being recalled to go back out to sea. Well this flag is called the PaPa flag and it is flying over my ship right now. I have 3o mins to get ready. Sorry if I was going to call today, but duty calls. Hopefully I will be able to call back home here in a week when we pull back in to Dutch Harbor again. Miss yall!

Tom

Back in the Bering!

Well I know it has been quite a while since I have updated this blog, after last patrol I decided to take three weeks of leave for some rest and relaxation and well I sort of forgot about this thing. But I soon arrived back in Alaska and headed back out for our winter patrol. We left Ketchikan on Feb 6th and now it is the 19th. It has been quite the busy first couple of weeks. With a two day stop in Kodiak for fish school, standing watch twice a day, and having a week straight of back to back field days (Insane cleaning) for the past week for the 3 Admirals that are comming aboard in two days, well lets just say about everyone is at their wits end. And Yes, 3 admirals are joining us on our boat for two days to get a "Taste" of the oldest commision ship on the Bering Sea. The one admiral is said to most likely be the next comindant of the Coast guard. So for anyone who knows anything about the military and high ranking officials will understand how tense things are around here. We are all hopeing to sea one of the Admirals blow chunks over the side actually, hows that for a taste of the Bering Sea :)!! ha.. Well I am going to close for now, I have limited off time here in Dutch harbor for this port call, with a color guard ceremony tomorrow, and the admirals comming the next day I will be quite busy. I will try to post a couple pictures tomorrow! Hope everyone is well back home. Miss yall!

Tom