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When people ask me how much longer I have on the island. I often give them an answer like "11 and a wake up."
To a person in the military this answer is quite valid and they go along with their lives with this knowledge.
For people in the civilian world they tend to look at me with their head tilted slightly to the side with a puzzled look on their face. It reminds of my old German Shepard Pepper when I would ask her to fetch something for me.
So I will now explain how to count backwards in military terms and why it is done this way.
You often count back to mark major landmarks, like returning to port from a major underway or a transfer(like I am about to have).
So when you count back you don't count the day you pull in or transfer. That is the day it happens so it is counted as just waking up and you do the event. You just simply count the days and subtract the day of the actual event...you simply say "11 and a wake up."
Isn't that easier...and it gives you one last day to have to count.

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