We recently had a Change of Command onboard for our Strike Group Commander. This picture is from their ceremony. It took a lot to get from where we were on Tuesday, February 11th to being able to do this on Monday, February 17th.
As most of you know, the BUSH was a few hours late getting underway for deployment. And it was my fault. Well, kind of. You see, I am responsible for the main engines and the machinery that makes our generators work. Unfortunately, during the cold months in Norfolk, there's this pesky organism called bryozoa. It doesn't grow too much in cold water, but once it gets in a warm environment, it grows exponentially. Bad news for a Main Propulsion Assistant; it clogged up every one of my condensers. It was an absolute herculean effort on the part of my Sailors to secure, remove, clean and restore each one of our machines. But, we got underway, only a few hours late, and are now out on deployment, doing what we're supposed to do.
Sometimes we get tripped up and slowed down by things that are of absolute no control of our own. This experience was an amazing lesson in that for me. If God can use a small microorganism to keep a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier pinned to pier, imagine what He can use to test our resiliency in our lives.
Keep steaming.
- Matt
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