A Day at Work

I'm sure some of you don't know exactly what I do for the Army, yes I do a little more than play golf. I am a maintenance Warrant Officer, my field of expertise is weapons. To become a Warrant Officer you have to work in a certain field for at least 6 years in a supervisor position. I am supposedly the expert for weapons maintenance, and I can also run the motorpool. I basically can be the manager of a large car repair shop that also fixes weapons and radios. No, not radios that play music, the radios we use to speak to one another. Our motorpool here has about 135 vehicles, over 700 weapons and over 100 radio systems. I am the one to schedule all the quarterly and annual services, assign all the work to the mechanics (which right now is a headache because everything needs fixing), and manage over $1 million worth of parts and supplies. Oh, and as for weapons, only myself and one other guy is qualified to fix them so that gets added on to my workload. Have I ever done all this before? Nope... but I am learning very quickly!!! Actually my college degree ( not the golf one, the Business Management one) is really paying off right now.

Part of the motorpool...

Me in a sandstorm in the motorpool...

My office and little staff work in the little corner building

Hard at work!

Hey! Take that crap out of my golf cart!!!

The days go by very fast, we are so busy! The hardest part of my day is when the sun is up, it's been around 130 degrees with humidity. You can feel the heat through your boots when walking on asphalt, it's ridiculous! I can't wait for August to be over with!!!

I have been so busy since the day we arrived trying to learn this job as I go. I have never read so many Army regulations and management books in my life. I am so glad I was given this job though, the time here is going to fly by and I will have learned a lot.