Working as a Navy contractor in Naples Italy

After getting burned out on six years in my job in Norman, OK, and my brother passing away i decided to get a job abroad. I had always wanted to see Europe and missed out on it in the military so I applied for a utilities GIS position at NAVFAC EURAFCENT in Italy. Thet accepted and it took three months to get the paperwork and clearances to get in place. I arrived in Naples 9 July 2019. My contract was for three people for a year and twooption years if the government approves. Started my third year in May 2021. Wierdly enough the company had a hard time getting people in place. We worked with only two on site for amost two years. They don't include shipping anything here or anything. Everything is on us and one economy. So no married people with kids will ever come. so understaffed in a newly established(one GS employee for two years) program to capture and process and publish utlity data for 91 sites in 9 countries on two two continents and several islands. No small thing. And that doesn't even start to cover the IT and manpower issues the Navy has in the EURAFCENT region. It has been difficult and when you put the COVID pandemic and restrictions of 2020 and on atop that it is a miricle we get things done. With the COVID situation I didn't get travel as much asI wanted, but I have seen a bit of Italy.....more later.