Getting Aquainted

Ok, so I have successfully made it to Okinawa. The flight over was rather long, but I survived. I took some pics out the window of the snow glaciers near Canada or Alaska one and of Tokyo.

I am currently in JRC (Joint Receiving Center or something like that) which means that I am in temporary barracks getting briefs that tell me about the island and whatnot. So I don't have internet access in my room right now, but I will probably Thursday.

We came to the conclusion that there is a 14 hour time difference. With that said I had the pleasure of watching the Super Bowl at 8:30 this morning. That was an experience in itself. I watched it on one of the AFN (Armed Forces Network) Channels and since it is run by the military they can't play commercials that people pay for. So President Obama and Bob Gates talked like every time there was a commercial. It was weird not having actual Super Bowl commercials. Anyways, I am glad that the Saints won!

Oh yeah, we don't have to work on Super Bowl Monday. That's pretty sweet I think.

I will be going to my unit Wednesday. So I will hopefully be able to have a solid internet connection and be able to post pictures that I have taken thus far.

I will be back with more soon.

Reporting from AFN Okinawa, I'm LCpl Meredith Watts.