Wrong!
It’s been an interesting week.
On Monday I was still tired from our pre-Cold Response mission, which apart from setting up a radio station included guarding and defending the area at night. It takes time to get back to normal after a week of minimum sleep. Also, the guy I’ve been seeing lately failed to get in touch on Valentines Day. Everyone else in the world remembered! Rude, I say. If not retarded...
Anyway, the week got better as I attended a class in half duplex signalling. It was a lot of fun pretending to be extremely serious about talking in a walkie-talkie.
Every time someone made a mistake on the radio, our instructor shouted “WRONG”! He then repeated the mistake and told the correct way to say it. The style is typical the Army and it sounded so silly I had to question it there and then. Luckily there was another instructor in the room who didn’t take it personally and basically explained it’s the pedagogic approach that military officers are taught. I never knew.
The lesson learnt was to say as little as possbile (over the radio) and the key to success is to finish each cryptic sentence with the word "OVER"...
Another lesson learnt is that it's not OK to spell out a word or name over the phone using "Lina" as a description for the letter "L" - it's meant to be "Ludvig". Turns out the Phonetic Alphabet in Sweden, is made up of all male first names.
Having finished my week with some 12 hours working days and Friday off, I’m ready for my next mission.
Ludvig Ivar Niklas Adam Klart Slut ;-)
