MSG

So, after spending an hour on the phone, and getting yelled at by Staff Sergeants and Gunnys for "Not letting them do their job" I found out that I was denied for MSG...a month ago.

The reason being that I had not spent enough time at this duty station, which is waver-able. Fighting more and more for it, I found out that it wasn't even MSG that denied me, it was the screener for my job, that I currently have. So there is nothing anyone can really say about that.

Some festival out side of base.

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Some of the foods include Fried rice, fried noodles, Japaneses pizza, octopus balls, and chicken and sausage on a stick.

Kids play this game where they are put in a pool about a foot deep, then the run around trying to catch an eel. If you catch it, you keep it. They do not let 23 year old marines do this.
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This guy was cooking something, when we walked by, it smelled so good, and when he got closer, we saw it was squid, never have I smelled squid that smelled that good.

This guy was writing on shirts in Japanese, in oil crayons.

Inside there was a bansi plant show, this little guy was about an inch and a half tall.

We waited around for Lance to ride by, but I think he was busy in France.

The opening to the festival.

The goon squad that came with me.

Solar Eclipse

Today at 10:27:14 am there was a total solar eclipse, if it wasn't total, it was really close.

Mean while we had CS gas training. That's always fun. Still waiting on orders from MSG. I haven't heard anything about that in over 3 weeks.

Okuma

Just around the beach, it rained a lot so picture taking was terrible.

But the beach was beautiful.