nikked
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Sometimes it's hard to tell.
One of the benefits of us choosing to go to Iraq for a year vs. retiring immediately was that we were supposed to get what's called a "follow-on". Basically, we provided them a list of bases we would like to go to, and they do their best to accommodate. If none of our list is available, they provide alternatives that we choose from.
BACKSTORY: When my husband did his first short tour (1 year remote) in 1990, he was suppost to get a follow-on, but was screwed out of it, so he was looking forward to this one.
FRONTSTORY: I'll try to make this short. Basically, we were told that none of the six bases were available, which is understandable and happens. But they are only offering three alternatives, all of which are East. Our only choice East was Charleston, and there were specific reasons why we wanted that base. All our other choices were West, and we have NO desire to go East, other than to Charleston. We both have sick parents, and don't want to be that far, plus the weather is not something we would enjoy.
They are offering only these three bases because they are having problems filling the positions, but this is not what we were promised. The powers that be in Tony's command structure have been promising help, but we are finding out now that they have been sitting on it instead of doing anything.
We were just given until Friday to choose one of the three, or they will choose for us. This doesn't leave a lot of time, especially with time zone issues to get this working. To top it all off, Tony doesn't have access to a "military" computer to access the list of available positions for his career field/rank, so we can't go to them with that information.
Anybody AF want to help? He is E-7, career field code 2R1. If you're able to pull up a list, please email me. This would be a HUGE help.
Ugh...sometimes it's so hard to know whether God is closing a door or the Devil is fighting.
Please be praying for wisdom and for the right thing to happen. We don't to push so hard that we get in the way of God's plan, but we also don't want to just leave things be that we feel are not right.
Thanks for "listening" and praying...
Love, Me
One of the benefits of us choosing to go to Iraq for a year vs. retiring immediately was that we were supposed to get what's called a "follow-on". Basically, we provided them a list of bases we would like to go to, and they do their best to accommodate. If none of our list is available, they provide alternatives that we choose from.
BACKSTORY: When my husband did his first short tour (1 year remote) in 1990, he was suppost to get a follow-on, but was screwed out of it, so he was looking forward to this one.
FRONTSTORY: I'll try to make this short. Basically, we were told that none of the six bases were available, which is understandable and happens. But they are only offering three alternatives, all of which are East. Our only choice East was Charleston, and there were specific reasons why we wanted that base. All our other choices were West, and we have NO desire to go East, other than to Charleston. We both have sick parents, and don't want to be that far, plus the weather is not something we would enjoy.
They are offering only these three bases because they are having problems filling the positions, but this is not what we were promised. The powers that be in Tony's command structure have been promising help, but we are finding out now that they have been sitting on it instead of doing anything.
We were just given until Friday to choose one of the three, or they will choose for us. This doesn't leave a lot of time, especially with time zone issues to get this working. To top it all off, Tony doesn't have access to a "military" computer to access the list of available positions for his career field/rank, so we can't go to them with that information.
Anybody AF want to help? He is E-7, career field code 2R1. If you're able to pull up a list, please email me. This would be a HUGE help.
Ugh...sometimes it's so hard to know whether God is closing a door or the Devil is fighting.
Please be praying for wisdom and for the right thing to happen. We don't to push so hard that we get in the way of God's plan, but we also don't want to just leave things be that we feel are not right.
Thanks for "listening" and praying...
Love, Me
