351^st Military Police Company

As the weeks closed in on days and days have now turned into hours things have been nothing shy of crazy busy around here. We soon will lift off and take a bird to a warmer climate, a small perk of leaving this frozen tundra.  Our training at Fort Dix has been long and cold, but overall it has been good. At times our training here has stressed us and pushed our operations team to be creative in their ways of getting what at times seamed to be impossible time lines for soldiers to be in more than one place at the same time.  With their valiant efforts they have made it through and did a great job of making it happen.

One observation I have made over the two months here is a rather new common saying which has turned into a slogan from our troops, “It is what it is”.  It can be heard walking through the halls and even sitting in meetings, it’s a simple statement that is a way of coping with the obvious shortcomings of any organization with mass management of  personnel. Anyone who has ever been part of a large organization or worked for a large company knows that sometimes things that make no sense are done just because “that’s the way it’s done” and for no other reason. Well I am sure that at a given level it may not seam to have a good reason but someone, somewhere made that particular rule or regulation for a good logical reason, even when it may not be so obvious to all, it probably is to the person who made the rule.

Now so far I have not heard an acronym for it, and in honor of the ARMY turning anything more than one word into an acronym I have taken the pleasure of creating one for it, I call it “IIWII” spoken as “ee-wee”. Today has been a long day for most of us  here, I know I have gotten a lot done and I am ready to get moving on the bird, but we are not there yet, the next day or two will also be long days, oh well, (IIWII) I guess it is what it is.