Same stuff differant day!!

Hiya all. We've now been away nine days and to me it seems like a month already. We had another Mini-Gun and GPMG shoot yesterday. And myself and one of the lads that work for me, Tommo, went onto the upper deck to clean the Polorus's. These are basically compass's that are positioned in strategic places around the ship. There are two on the bridge wings. One on the port side and one on the starboard side. These are to aid the officer of the watch in his manouvering of the ship and also for the weapons crews stationed on the bridge wings to quickly locate their targets. We also have two polorus's on the GDP (Gunnery Direction Platform). Again these are on the outer extremities of the location where there is somebody closed up to locate the targets and pass it to the weapon director, who then broadcasts the fact over his intercom. We then didn't have a lot to do, however we did do some training with regard to weapon engineering. We worked on what we call TAG-OUT which is a safe system of work to allow you to work on a piece of equipment safely. Basically you isolate the equipment power supplies and then remove the fuses so someone cannot inadvertently turn the equipment on whilst you are working on it. You'd look pretty stupid doing the conga on your own!!! We also located the emergency power cut off switches, just so if you have to work on a live bit of kit, then your safety number, once he's finished laughing at your one man conga, can kill the power and carry out the appropriate action. Changing the subject from work, to play, those of you who know me will be surprised to learn that I actually went and did some fitness last night. Off my own back, with nobody hounding me to do so. I MUST BE ILL. As those who no me will also probably be aware i have a very dodgy knee, the remnants of a motorbike accident when i was seventeen. The fallout from that, I'm now not allowed to do any impact exercise. So my fitness will consist of walking, which I did last night for thirty minutes, and the cross trainer which we have secured in the winch well, a compartment down at the back end of the ship.