We're getting ready for an ORE. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish for the apocalypse, I hate it so much. It means sitting in chem gear in 100 degree heat. Of course it's practice for the real thing and if the real thing ever comes I'll want to know what to do, but that doesn't make it suck less.
We've been sitting in weekly ORE meetings (Motto: Chipping away at your soul one meeting at a time) that are very slow, tedious, and horrid. It's like being bitten to death by butterflies. Last week they said that the most important thing to remember was to "have fun!"
I try to see the best in things, but some things just aren't fun no matter what. There's no point in pissing and moaning about it--everybody's in the same boat, but that doesn't make it fun.
My favorite part is when we're in the middle of the ORE and somebody reads off a dramatic, new piece of message traffic. They'll say "Exercise exercise exercise. North Korean special ops forces have just gotten onto the base and the wing building is destroyed. Exercise exercise exercise."
There is always that one person that says, "Oh my God! REALLY?" Yes, really. That's why we're all sitting around eating tacos while North Koreans overrun an Air Force base in the middle of the continental United States.
It just occurred to me that it really could be worse. I could be at Minot right now in the wake of their major nuclear surety inspection failure. I'm pretty sure there's not a worse place in America in any branch of the Department of Defense right now than Minot AFB. I'll try to keep that in mind for the ORE.
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