Will the crap stop getting flung at me and my family?
Ok, Bry is on TDY, but apparently it might not be for long. It turns out that his paperwork got all mixed up. Why? How? The TDY was last minute and he had retention breathing down his neck to re-enlist right away. So he did. Soon as he signed the re-enlistment papers stating that he’d move to station of choice, he was on orders. The FSTE paperwork (the papers that would extend his tour here so he could deploy) got denied by branch and HRC. He was told to re-negotiate his re-enlistment to fix the problem, or if he didn’t, he’d be returned to 1st MI and we’d move to Bliss in October. He’d still eventually deploy though, no biggie. I can handle that.
I told him to go ahead and not re-negotiate. I would rather him be actually part of a unit that deploys instead of being attached to a unit that deploys. Especially since the unit we’d be at with Bliss is a great one that I have heard nothing negative about. Whereas the unit he’s attached to right now…just don’t even get me started. The unit we’ve been in looks like a group of angels compared to this one. They’ve done more negative bs to my husband in the past two weeks than we dealt with in nealry 4 years with our original unit.
The thing that irks me about all of this is that we planned a trip for John and I to go to the US and see Bry while he was there. So if he does get sent back here then the tickets are kinda worthless. We’d have a year to use them, but we’d have to fly from here. Basically, it means John and I can go to the US solo or we could pay for another ticket and pray Bry gets leave approved so he can join us.
A plus side I just realised from all of this if things go the way -I- would like them to…we can try for #2 this summer as originally planned. Needless to say, we need prayers that this all gets sorted out.
*hugs*
~Jen
Tracy said,
March 5, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Sorry that its working out weird for you. I mean maybe there is positive to it. You still have a little time there to do and see things, and Bryan should be with you for those. Then you can move together which makes things easier. If you want to try for another baby that makes things great. You know in advance he is going to deploy but that should give you some time to get settled and hopefully find a group of friends for support there. Sometimes things look crazy for a bit and then when the dust settles you see that it really wasn’t that bad of a deal. Do you have renters insurance? I know ours covers when you can’t fly and I think not being able to fly for that reason may be covered. I would call the airline too and explain it to them, you may just get a nice person who is willing to refund your money. Good luck.
thebutton said,
March 5, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Yeah I talked to a supervisor and gave her the “sob story” and it didn’t work. I was told we have a year to use our tickets and we -have- to fly out of Germany for that to even work…very stupid.