At least it's over.

Last week the E-4s in my old company signed their evals, and it gave a good picture of how much the chain of command cares about their troops.

I was one of the last three to sign their eval, three of us went straight from the armory at the end of the day to the office. When we got there, Chief, LT, and one of our first classes hurried into the office and shut the door. After a minute they called us all in the office at once (evals are a private matter unless you wish to share them) and told us that they had forgotten to write one up for one of us. Come back tomorrow and we'll have it all fixed.

The next day when I went back in to sign my new eval, I looked at the block which contained training and classes that were recommended I take by the chain of command. The first of which said SCW and the second said IN RATE TRAINING.
Last deployment I did all the requirements for SCW (warfare qualification) except for a field exercise. Two months ago at the end of FEX I thought I was going to get my pin, but it didn't come. I had to run a chit through the entire battalion, up to the master chief, in order to be given something that I had worked for and earned myself. So I looked at LT, adked what he meant by SCW and pointed to the patch on my uniform signifying that I already had it.

As for the IN RATE TRAINING entry, I was told by LT and to my suprise Chief that I needed to practice the skills I learned in A-school and the ones I would use on deployment. I was then told to make sure I used the opportunities this deployment to learn how to do work in other rates, not just my own.
Great. Except there was no mention of the fact that I did all that last deployment. It was spoken like I just spent all my time in the office, doing paperwork. But the fact of the matter is, I surveyed two 20'X48' buildings and a 120' bridge, both of them turning out within specifications, if not perfectly. Then when the surveying was done, I put down my instruments and went to work. I'm not sure how many other EAs in the battallion can build forms, place and tie rebar, pour and finish concrete, cut and weld, hang sheeting and trim, put in walls, and drive a dump truck, loader, bulldozer, roller and forklift.

All this just made me happier that I'm off of CST, and onto a small det where people won't be able to ignore the fact that I'm doing what I should, and doing it well.