Ship selection night!!

Tonight is Ship Selection Night at the Academy. That is when all of the Midshipmen who will be graduating in May who have selected to go Surface Warfare (like me) will get to chose which ship they will be on for their first sea tour. They make it a really big deal here. Quintin likened it to the NFL draft, but the only difference is the players get to choose the team they want to be on. It is going to be a long night, but it should be fun.

There are going to be a lot of high ranking officers there- namely a lot of Admirals. All of the VIPs get to have dinner at the Superintendent's house before the ceremony begins. Even though they each have a Flag Lieutenant whose sole job is to keep their schedule and make sure they get from one location to another, each of the Lieutenants in my department were assigned an Admiral to escort. We have to pick them up and walk them over to another building, which is only about a 5 minute walk.

Somehow I was chosen to escort the highest ranking one... Vice Admiral Etnyre, Commander, Naval Surface Forces (That means he is in charge of all the ships in the Navy). Here is his picture- I have to use this to try to find him in the crowd at the Supe's house.


Not sure what kind of small talk I am going to make on the way over, but I'm sure I'll think of something. Maybe I can see what he thinks about Britney shaving her head and bailing out of rehab for the second time!!