Day 1

I started my [US] orientation today. Unfortunately for me they didn't have a class first thing on what the 400000 acronyms stand for that I've come across so far so I'm pretty much as knowledgeable as I was before I got here (maybe a little less). But, thanks to the incomprehensible power of the infamous "smile and not" technique I made it through. All joking aside, today was relatively uneventful. Got all my medial and tax forms filled out. Was handed a massive bottle of malaria pills and sat through a few hours of power point. I have a 5 hour [paid] break then get to go listen to a half hour long speech. Then I'm done for today. I was told I would have my final location assignment by Thursday and fly out for Kuwait on Friday.