What exactly, is it, ya do here?

So, some of you may be wondering, "What is Cory doing in Guam when he's not on the beach?". Well, it's not just snorkeling and swimming while I'm here. There's also bars to be seen, restaurants to try, and, oh yeah, we work a little bit.

Our operation's center here is in a house on Anderson Air Force Base. It's actually kind of a duplex with a door between them so we have control of the entire building.

All of the different groups have their own room. The computer guys set up a network throughout the entire house so all the computers can communicate. There's a kitchen with snacks and we have most of the comforts of home. My favorite part is the clocks on the wall telling us what time it is in all of the places that people in the project are from.

Every day there is a daily planning meeting, where the people of the project get together (mostly over the Internet) and decide what the plan for the next few days is going to be. There's always a weather briefing as well. This is one of the living rooms at the house, which is where people gather for the planning meetings and the debriefings after the flights.


Once the planning meetings are done and the flights scheduled then we go our separate ways and either get things ready for the next flight or work on data from the last one. The flights will take off the next morning early (usually between 2 am and 8 am). While they are in the air the next planning meeting is held to decide what to do the next day, and on it goes. I was lucky enough to go up on a flight on Sunday, so my next post will talk about that experience.