So you want to be lead Tommie? Here is your handbasket , welcome to your first day.

Well, the other day I sent Ken off for his R&R and I was heading back to our base camp for my two weeks R&R. Well today has been nothing short of a day in Hell. Everything that has could go wrong did. I can't discuss what is going on due to OPSEC but, just know that you don't want these things to happen when you are fully staffed let alone when you are running a one man show. I have been back and forth to the command center putting out fires. The thing that is the problem (well for me at least) is that we have a new sherriff in town and the new sherriff has no love for civilaians in the command center. Even civilians that DESIGNED the command center, this wasn't a problme with the old sherriff the realized that I am here to help. The funny thing is that I have a higher clearance than 90% of the Marine Corps. When I got my clearance the President called me to to tell me where we store the aliens. On top of that there aren't many communications systems that have been deployed in the last 6 years that don't have my fingerprint on them somewhere. I've been tempted on several occasions to fire back at one of the guys, "Do you even have the clearance to ask me what my clearnace is?"

But, they have guns. It seems that some sentrys have ADD or blew their short term memory on a weed binge or something. I'll leave the command center and come back like 5 minutes later and they ask me who I am and who I'm here to see so then I have to wait outside the gate for 30 minutes while they find someone to escort me in the command center, never mind I've been in the command center for going on 6 months. Then on top of that the people that summoned for me ask me what took me so long. I'm thinking "Hell you want me in you come get me so I can have a Marine hold my hand on the way in."

At anyrate, I was in the Command Center today for a good little bit and I got everything up and running as well as handle some issues at another site that needed to be handled. So all and all I'm good to go. I survived my trial by fire and as always bigger, stronger, better, faster. Call me the Bionic Negro.