Touched by an Uncle.
Uncle Sam that is.
(Note2Mods: this may belong in the community subforum. leaving it up to you)
So, today was a rather pleasent day. This week has been rather pleasent. Aside from being cold (pretty sure it was below freezing as puddles on the pavement were frozen) and a little windy. I saw some very dark clouds but thankfully no snow (I was on another post and didn't want to drive in fucking snow and ice). Pretty lax week, I've been attending various appointments for most of the it.
Lax until around probably 3pm. When I got word that I'm heading for a dilemma. As some of you may be aware, I'm due to get out of the military here soon and I'm quite happy of that fucking fact. Happy. Life is a roughly straight line at this phase. Well, imagine someone sticking a fucking space tether in your roughly straight road causing a rather ugly fork to spawn in it. Oh, and that at any moment, that space tether will come crashing down possibly destroying one or both of those roads, or damaging them causing a temporary road block.
You see, I came up on orders for Ft. Lewis (Washington state). However, I don't have to follow them since I'm getting out soon (not enough time left to change duty stations). HOWEVER, if I did want to make the rather heart attack inducing choice of re-upping to go to Washington I would be stuck for another 2 years (get out in Dec 2011). Plus a deployment in 2010. Whether or not I get stuck on that trip is up in the air...but I'm more than certain of it. Plus plus (sic), I only have until roughly the end of the year to re-enlist before my window closes.
"Why is this such an issue?", you ask. I want to get out. Don't want to play Soldier no more. Rather like my hair and not having to shave my face or work out all the goddamn time (you don't get to pick when and where you work out. cold weather at 5am...not fun). Rather like the freedoms that I've helped support the fight for these past four years. Tired of seeing, first hand, shitty military men/women who ruin the status and other's lives plus seeing wasted tax dollars. Oh hell, the wasted tax dollars :\.
"So...why even consider staying in until almost 2012?", you continue. Well, because Washington is the state I was looking to move to after I got out. There is a rather pretty well known company out there that I was hoping to work for. However, nothing is ever set in stone...until it's actually engraved. I can't know for sure if I'll hold a job with said company or even make it the interview until it actually happens. I've of course made plans to do part time school had it came down to this even before this news came about.
If I stay in, the Army will pay for all my shit to be shipped out there (car, porn, computers, clothes, porn, etc). Plus I can find a place while I'm out there living on the Army's dime and then have that residence come my new return-to-sender address where the Army will then pay again to have my shit shipped to when I get out.
As it stands, I just can't exactly see the "pros" out weighing the "cons". Waiting on some feedback from various people IRL. Even with the shotty medical/dental/optics the military provides for free-ish and the possible additional 40k+ that I will have to my name before I get out in Dec 2011 (more/less assuming a deployment).
Comment if you like, just keep the shit posts out. At least stop loss becomes a voluntary basis Jan 1 2010. Unless Obama-mama says Yes to Change on that.
Originally Posted by Limited
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