Today my husband went to the promotion board - and he passed! Yay! It was the promotion board for E-5 (SGT). Now we just have to wait for his points to become 'active' (December) and hope that the points for promotion for his MOS (job) are not maxed out.
There are only a few things that I dislike in military life. One of those being: not knowing where/when you're going to be going somewhere. See, Thomas is trying to get orders for Fort Carson, CO. The thing is he only has a year and a half left in his contract and in order to get stateside orders you have to have two years left. The date for the option he wants ends on October 18th.. and if there are still slots open then he can possibly get orders for that and then re-enlist early (his window opens in March). This would totally rock because we would get a 10,000 re-enlistment bonus. Yes, it would be heavily taxed (I think we'd have get 7 after taxes?) but that would pay off all our bills (pay off Dell, our personal loan, and our furniture loan.) giving us an extra $300/month. Plus, we'd go to Colorado.
Now, if the above falls through it is very likely he will get orders to Korea before March. All he needs is a year left to go to Korea. So, if this happens, he will have been home for less than a year. We have talked about my going home to Georgia if this happens. Now, I refuse to live with my dad ever, ever again. I lived with him when Jamey was first born, again for another year before my husband joined the Army. And then again for a couple months while my husband was in Iraq last year. It was horrible. I refuse to do it again. My plan would be to rent an apartment or house. We're concerned with whether the Army would pay for me to move there and back. I've done some searching online and I haven't been able to find anything. I don't really want to ask anyone until we know it's going to happen. Thomas acts like it is for sure. He's naturally a pessimest, while I'm the optimist.
Now, we're supposed to find out on the 18th whether CO is an option anymore. But Thomas will be in the field, so we won't know until he gets back from the field because he isn't allowed to take his cell phone with him. *sigh* I'm so tired of waiting. I just want to know, to be able to plan!
written by indy1212
October 13, 2004 at 6:36 p.m.