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Waiting on our Princess
by ♥ Bella

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♥ Possibly deploying again?

06/19/2010

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Why does doing the logical thing always suck so bad? Shouldn't it be the bigger reward, or the easier thing to do? More people would do it if that were the case. In my case yet once again it has to do with military and our life there in.
Josh brought up out of the blue last night that his lieutenant offered him a deployment whenever he wants it. She had overheard him talking I guess about our "money issues". They aren't even really issues and he told her that, it would just be nice to have the money of course. Things are tight since we had to take out a small loan on top of the car to pay off the credit card and part of my school for this semester. It is doable , just tight, and a little uncomfortable at times.
Anyways. The clencher is this. Josh gets to reenlist either in November or March. We aren't wholly sure yet because in order to reenlist he had to push back his exit date because you have to be retainable for 2 years after your move. He was like 4 months under two years so they pushed it back so we could have this move. Either way He will get to reenlist this coming year. If he reenlists while on a deployment the bonus is tax free. Not only is his bonus tax free but so is all the money he makes meaning his extra deployment pay and all that, he ends up getting a bigger check then usual each month. It would be nice to have the tax free money, it is a big chunk extra when it comes to his bonus.
There are a few other thoughts I had about this. I hate winter. We take a deployment in the next year and we can have alot of sway over when he leaves. I for sure more then anything want him here for her first birthday. Which is February. So say he were to leave in March - That would put him home by September if things worked out right meaning I would not be left home for the worst part of winter. He would leave at the end and come home before it started again.
As of right now he isn't set to deploy til 2012 since he just got home. That works horribly with us trying to conceive another child. He will either end up gone through the pregnancy again if we get pregnant when we were wanting to or he will leave right after the birth. I know people do it all the time but if we can control the situation why not? If he leaves in or around March as we have been talking about by the time he comes home again Claire will be at least a year and a half if not close to 2 years old. Making it a great time to try for the next one putting her close to 2 1/2 or 3 when the baby were to be born. Then he would also still have at least a year before he deploys again possibly more because we will be at the end of our tour here. If they move us before he deploys again it would tack on another good while because he has to train and all that at the new base before they will deploy him.
I dunno. There really isn't anything to think about. All around it is the logical thing to do. But the logical thing usually hurts the worst and this is that scenario. I don't ever want to tell him to go on a deployment when he doesn't absolutely have to do it. I don't really ever want him to go of course, what person truly does? But I think I am going to have to tell him to. He would reenlist there and his money would be direct deposited into the account. The half you get up front. That would pay off most of our bills that we have at this moment and the rest would pay ALOT on a second vehicle for me if that is what we chose to do, or save it til he got home to get one since while he is gone I don't need it anyways. Then when he came home we would be sitting in a much more comfortable place which would make not only having another child easier, but our life much better. We would be able to take a vacation, or trips into the city, those kinds of things.
Gah! I don't know. This sucks so bad I cannot even think straight. But if it is inevitably going to happen why not let it happen when we can control the situation you know? When he leaves, where he reenlists, TTC and all those things?





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What Life is All About heck yeah i got a $16,000 enlistment bonus and was supposed to get $10,000 up front when I got to my first duty station. I only got $7,500 after taxes.

[Mami 2 ♥ 1|0 likes] [|reply]

Hard thing to think about.

[♥always, jes.Star|0 likes] [|reply]

Have you seen the latest Army Times? I guess in the next physical year for the military they are going to cut deployments to no more then 9 months unless the AD person is at a base that is being turned over to the locals, and unless in certain units they are going to require a min of 2 years at home between deployments.
I hope that is true! But we all know it really doesnt matter since crap can change last minute with the military and they arent always the best and following their own guidelines.
If he re-enlists have him ask for a base where there is no winter. Ft Hood here in TX turns no one down that asks for assignment here - the bad thing is that coming to Hood is almost always an automatic deployment and the FRG's here tend to SUCK

[Meghans FollieStar|0 likes] [|reply]

NM just saw that ya'll are AF lol. There's still lackland and randolph AFB's here in TX

[Meghans FollieStar|0 likes] [|reply]

I hear ya. Not to mention the unknown is always a little scary anyway.
I'm a little clueless when it comes to AF stuff even though Tim was first in the AF (but it was before we met) From what little I know I thought "bucket numbers" could only come up once every three years or is that just for certain (crap we call it MOS but I know yall call it something else.. their job designation)?

[Meghans FollieStar|0 likes] [|reply]

The logical thing is almost never easy. I hope things work out well, you're right... If you have to do it then you might as well control it.

[The Only Blitch.|0 likes] [|reply]

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