Normally when I go on these trips the Navy puts me up in a nice hotel. But since this was an Army exercise, I had to live in this tent city. Why you ask? Because the ARMY THINKS CAMPING OUT IS FUN! I beg to differ. What you cannot tell from this picture is that the Army (which oversees all major water projects in America) put this tent city at the bottom of the biggest hill on base. On the first day we had a light drizzle and I began wondering what would happen if we were to have a real downpour. On the seventh day we found out. The entire encampment flooded out. NICE! Almost makes me want to root for Navy to "Beat Army" in football- no wait, I do that already!

This very serious dude I am standing in front of is the Korean Admiral who defeated the Japanese Navy using the world's first ironclad ships (called "turtle boats") hundreds of years before the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack. The Japanese did not like being defeated and did not want it to happen again so they had a traitor poison him. Don't ask me his name because I wasn't formally introduced.