I really have a pretty cake job in the Navy right now, I joined last year and was sent to a base in Annapolis, MD.  We support and assist the Naval Academy which is across the bay from our base.  The academy teaches midshipmen (basically college students) and when they graduate they become Naval Officers.  We maintain a smaller sized craft called a “Yard Patrol Craft” or YP for short.  It holds about 50 or so people max, with a crew of 4, of which I am one.  We have about 20 Yp’s total.  They are used to teach the midshipmen how to navigate, steer, pull in to port.  It’s essentailly training them how to do the same thing in the fleet when they graduate and are sent there.  I’m going to New York on my YP, the 690, this week with the Midshipmen.  They will be steering, standing watches, navigating, charting courses, etc.  It’s their training, and I just get to go along for the ride and make sure everything is safe and no one dies or anything.  I can’t complain about the job, except that I’d rather be somewhere closer to some “action”, but God has me here for a reason I suppose. 

I did the split household thing for many years..it’s no fun.  Those comments are true though, it’s difficult to discipline a child in a healthy way in that situation. Though God is certainly willing and able to work in every situation.  I find that I can relate very well to people that have also been in this situation, and can effectively talk with them about it, for God’s glory. 

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