Another day, another phone call

I had mailed Nate a list of questions after his first phone call. He phoned just now to help me understand his situation.

He is going on the boat as helmsman/watchman. He will stand watch and he will learn to pilot the Valiant. He has to earn E3 status prior to being allowed to go to his "A" school. He will go to "A" school in order to earn an AMT instead of an AET. He did not say why. He toured a boat that is larger than his, but it gave him a sense of what his will be like. He said they do have access to the information that I sent as well in an internet lab and that he had had the chance to check out his future home.

I inquired about his buddy, who entered with Nate. He has been reverted one week and may stay back a second week.

Nate stated, "We have a tremendous responsibility and some people who sign up aren't ready/mature enough to face it and handle it.

Nate has an upper respiratory infection. He just finished a course of antibiotics and is feeling a little better, but you can hear the illness in his voice.

The connection was awful, and again he had to go.