12 Long Weeks
For those of you who don't know, this is the Pell Bridge which separates the lovely seaside town of Newport and it's Naval Base from the rest of the world. This picture was taken from the Newport Hyatt at a nice bayside restaurant where I was boozing it up in civvies and not from the more familiar angle visible from the Physical Training Field at the Naval Base. That view was normally seen at 5am in the morning while doing Push Ups or Sit Ups and being yelled at. It's a well known point of longing and a symbol for the outside world for all the candidates so it's only fitting that my first post after graduation is of that bridge now that I'm on the other side.
