I waited too long to submit this, but I'll submit it under the wire anyway!

Yeah, I know I'm not wearing ten thousand pounds of gear, but what is a Sailor on deployment to do? Dress down! Haha! Since I had no "going out on patrol" experience, the best I can do is post this pic that was taken during a replenishment at sea (RAS) evolution. If you were in supply (which I was), you were BUSY on those days. This was during my second deployment, when I was the Postal Officer, and we were deployed over the entire holiday season, so therefore I spent pretty much the entire day, every RAS day, in the hangar bay sweating right alongside my Sailors and looking like this (or worse). What I was carrying was a knife and a large permanent marker! We had quite the distribution system involving flying boxes and much shouting. I made a note on this particular photo folder that this day was a "recordbreaking" mail call at 120 triwalls of mail. Here's some of it:

I solemnly promise that I keep trying to upvote this post, and it's not working :(