Settling in back home

Evening in Arizona - getting ready to fly.

So I'm back from my schooling back east, I've had my check ride and now I'm a Standards Instructor for non rated crew members.  This means I can train crew chiefs and gunners, and perform evaluations on them as well as other instructors.  After talking with the other instructors I decided that Wednesday will be my night to fly.  While National Guard is known for the whole one weekend a month thing, in aviation we do quite a bit more to maintain our currency, to the point of routinely doubling the normal schedule.  So in addition to our drill weekends and annual training periods, we as a unit generally fly three nights a week.  The instructors split these nights up to make sure training is available as needed.