Minute Book

Friends, when some of you in America go to the office today, I want you to KISS your Minute Book!

We spent the day yesterday in a Management Board meeting, discussing budgets and policy matters. After 11 years here in Estonia, the Army is still like a little baby trying to get adjusted to being out in the world!

The difficulty with building your ship when it's already on the water is that you are bound to get rather wet, and it makes it a lot harder to make the journey!

We're coming along, but it's a constant source of frustration for all of us.

The next time your GS or DS or FS or CS sends you an updated Minute or some other seemingly-trivial letter relating to policy or procedure, I DARE you to send him/her back a heartfelt thank-you note!

There are only 8 officers here in Estonia: Regional Commander Couple, two CO couples, and two single COs. We serve all the functions of DC, DS, FS, DYS, Finance Board, etc. etc.

So please thank your comrades who fulfill those roles FOR you so that you can get on with the war!

In Pendel, we had the greatest divisional team ever, and we were so thankful for them every day (Carlson, Steele, Goding, Shaeffer, and Carla Picard)! Serving under them as cadet-lieutenants, and then new captains, taught us more than 10 years as in-house cadets every could have (not to diss other DHQs or the SFOT here, just to compliment Pendel!).

Whew! Glad I got that off my chest. :-)

Minute Books. Roll Books. Seekers Registers. Budgets. You may gripe about them, but you'd miss them if you didn't have them, believe me!

Evelyn