Short one today. Thanks for reading. :)
Friday, November 29, 2013
Days of days
So rumor has it the Internet will be shut off tmrw. I hope not. Hopefully they were just bluffing. Haha. I got off work early today and it was good cuz I really needed it. I had my tape test this morning and I've come to the conclusion I should get out of the military. I'm tired of feeling fat when I'm not.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving
Well today was an alright day. I had the day "off" but had to have dinner with a bunch of generals. Which was alright except they didn't have pumpkin pie at the chow hall. Lol
One of my Aussie friends left today too. I'm gunna miss him alot. Real good guy. His name is Andrew.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
First post
Well this is new. I hope you all are entertained by my ramblings haha. I don't know how often ill update this thing but ill try to do it as often as I have something to say lol so do y'all know anything about moving cargo? Cuz that's what I do. There are many faces of transportation. Land sea air and rail. Each of those legs has cargo and PAX. I do cargo. Everywhere I've been, I've done cargo. And I really enjoy it. Like some people like it. But I honestly think I was born to do this. So right now I am doing air. I load planes. It's pretty good fun. Last night we had some seal guys come in with a pallet of tires and the way they had it strapped to the pallet was out of control. Ill explain. So a pallet is 108 inches by 88 inches and cargo can be stacked (typically) no taller than 96 inches. There are 6 rings on the 108 length side and 5 rings on the 88 length side. There is a net called a top net that is designed for cargo that is shorter than 45 inches tall. It is designed the same way as the pallet where one side is longer than the other. And it has 5 hooks on one side and 4 on the other. The ring on the pallet the farthest to the right on each side is always empty. The top net also has this extra hook on it called the belly band which is designed to provide extra security and to make sure nothing falls off the pallet or shifts during transport. There is also netting called side nets which are a bit more complicated and ill explain those at a later time. So back to the pallet with the tires. THESE GUYS come in with this pallet. It was taller than me (I'm 67 inches tall) and there were ratchet straps strewn about and a TOP NET was what they put on it. Well needless to say all of us down at the yard almost broke our necks as soon as it came in the yard. Like flies on shit cuz apparently we have a 6th sense for messed up pallets haha. It was crazy. I don't know how they even got this thing attached to the pallet. There were straps everywhere. Attached to the wrong hooks and even attached back onto their own strap lol. I will include a picture to show y'all.
See what I mean? OUT OF CONTROL. well needless to say we had to fix it. Lol.
It's now 1030 pm (9.5 hour time difference from the east(best) coast) and its time for this girl to hit the hay. Good night.
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