The End of the Start

Friday, finished five days of training (what? you go to training?!), this time about the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty itself, redundantly referred to as the START Treaty. The training was more geared to the rest of the treaty that doesn't have to do with the Votkinsk mission, but since ours only makes up about 3% of the 1000-page tome, I guess it's okay if people want to learn about the other 990 pages.

It was interesting to hear about the other DTRA missions, both in Russia and supporting the recipricaltationary missions the Russians perform here (missions that I may very well end up supporting if I'm here long enough). A guy from our office gave an "oh, by the way" briefing about what we do, but since it wasn't on the end-of-course test, no one payed much mind.