Navy Life

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by Navy life. Most times I choose not to blog about it because I feel some people might be turned off by the negative. To be honest though it can be a rough life. I have never been a person of great patience and yet it seems that is what is tried the most with the Navy. The game of "hurry up and wait." Can be a long and tiresome one. Especially when your spouse calls with more indefinate news.

We have been on a roller coaster for some months now. Days that seem like we will never get an answer. Here's the situation, a few months ago my husband was told he would be going on deployment, but he found orders that he wanted to try to get, they canceled his extention so he could take the orders. The orders fell through and the extention was reinstated. A few weeks later he gets a call saying that he needs to select orders as his extention has been canceled for the 2nd time??? This leaves two open cycles for him to choose from. Well the first cycle had a few choices of which he applied for and wasn't selected. Which brings us to now. He has applied for 2 more sets of orders and are now playing the waiting game. Rumor mill is turning and tell him he is #1 pick for the orders. Ok that is all fine and good, but the list came out today and he is still slated to go on deployment. It is all so confusing. They would leave in December. Mike would have to report to his new job in March if he got the orders he applied for. Why would they even put him on a list to go, we are suppose to know whether or not he has these orders on Friday, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Like they don't alredy know the answer to whether he is getting these orders? Makes me wonder if even got them??? Retirement can't come soon enough right now. IT just amazes me how they drag these guys around all over the country doing their job, and can't do the decent thing by talking to them about their future until the very last minute. Talk about frustration, you can never make plans for the future. Because the Navy is always planning it for you. It's no wonder most people I talk to want to get out. I would never let Mike walk away at 8, 10, 12, 14 years, but it is making more sense to me now. People just get tired of the uncertainty. The roller coaster ride finally gets to them and they just want off.

So now we wait until Friday to see if we get the Jacksonville orders, then we wait again to see if he will still have to go on the deployment. So many questions and so few answers! This is one reason I stopped blogging about this so called Navy life.