December 22

I have a good group of 4 guys (Stevens, Rodriguez, Merren) all SWCC drops. Stevens is 25 and engaged, Rodriquez is 19 and sheltered and Merrens similar. We plan on sticking together and using the hell out of the tours and avoiding bars like the plague (there’s a lot of people who head for the bar closest to the dock and don’t leave it for 3 days, there’s others that go to even lower places of socializing and don’t leave for 3 days). Besides, half our department is still on liberty restriction from the LAST deployment (meaning they can’t go for the full time or even off the boat at all) so we could be by ourselves (not alone mind you but we’ll be with the group that actually sees the country as apposed to getting blacked out). I should mention Deck has a reputation for being in the latter group.