As much as I love the military, it's pretty ass-backwards sometimes and the amount of hoops and red tape you have to wade through is ridiculous sometimes. Here's the scoop. I am going to training school and I had applied for a Government travel credit card two drill weekends ago (November) only to have it kicked back to me last drill weekend (December) because I had missed something on one of the blocks. So, I corrected the form, gave it back to my career counselor and off it went. So I thought. It is now coming up on drill weekend again (January) and I STILL don't have my damn government travel credit card. I have emailed personnel, who in turn forwarded my email on to the Chief that oversees credit cards and ADT order approval. I never heard back. I emailed the first class that is going to be checking me out for active duty and asked her what else I needed for deployment and she informed me that I would need a government travel credit card. So, again I explained the story to her and she forwarded my email onto the Chief that oversees the cards. I never heard back. So, I took the bull by the horns and I emailed the Chief to find out where my card was. Mind you, I have at this point scrambled and got a copy of my rental car and hotel reservations to request advanced per diem so I would have SOME money to go on my GOVERNMENT orders with. The Chief emailed me back today and he not only copied the first class that got me my advanced per diem request processed, but the NOSC XO, two people in personnel and my unit Chief. I guess he was saying that I didn't follow my chain of command. Who knows. Who cares, I got my credit card application processed.....FINALLY.
*Side note-there were at least 5 other people going on orders to this training school that requested government travel credit cards at the same time and last I had heard, they had not received theirs either.
The card Chief told me in the email that he wasn't sure why there was such a delay, but my card should be processed tomorrow and SHOULD be here before I leave. Thank goodness that I was told about requesting the advanced per diem!! Can we say someone dropped the ball?!!??!!
This is just ANOTHER example of why I hate the Reserves. I know, I know, it happens on active duty too, but at least you don't have to wait an entire month to try and get something resolved because they can only do it on a drill weekend. Don't even get me started on the whole ID card thing and why my NOSC doesn't have an ID Deers machine and why if we have an ID card issue, we have to go to the Air National Guard base or go to the Capital. Can we say they don't want to "deal" with it so they just get rid of the problem. How nice of them to be so thoughtful and look out for their "shipmates". HA! what a joke!! Pitiful....pit-i-ful I say! I think it's time to Go Green, at least on drill weekends I would have a much cooler uniform to get shafted in.
Ok, ok, I'm done with my rant now.
So, in other news...I was much nicer to the new girl at work today and I was even nicer to my boss. I'm sure they all thought I fell and hit my head overnight or something. It must have been the weather change today. Everyone at work seems to be under this delusional impression that I am a smartass or something and I really don't know where they would ever get that idea. :o)
As Sandra Lee says, "keep it simple, keep it smart, and most of all keep it loaded with ALCOHOL"
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3 comments:
No matter what branch you are in, the reserves suck. It seems to me that they only want to pretend to be in the military one weekend a month. I was assigned to my unit 4 months ago and I still dont have the new ACU uniform. I only have BDU's to wear to drill. I have resorted to buying my own ACU's through aafes. Its just ridiculous. I can't wait to go active so I can actually be in the military. The reserves are just pissing me off.
On a side note, I really enjoy your playlist. Lots of tunes I really dig.
On a side side note, you should come over to the Army.
Talk at you later.
Oh great, that's not making me feel any better about the reserves. I didn't want to go active duty again, but like you said the reserves is just pissing me off too. Thanks for the comment on my play list. I thought I should add one since all the cool kids were doing it. I took your advice on chatting with an army recruiter on goarmy.com and they said I have to wait until the end of my contract. Shit!
The dog "Ranger" is working out great. He's a great running partner. He isn't very good in a vehicle though. We took him to New York with us for Christmas and he threw up a lot and was a slobbery mess when we arrived. So I'll be working with him in that department. I've been field training him lately and thats working out well.
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