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Ugh. I am about to drive myself crazy hoping, praying for answers this weekend about the AD stuff. Justin has drill this weekend, and if he doesn't get some sort of answer then by the time he goes back in March (he doesn't have drill in Feb) it will have been ONE YEAR since we submitted the paperwork to go AD. :( This just makes me want to cry. I'm just so frustrated with this whole situation. Everything about it. I'm frustrated that they haven't done their jobs, I'm frustrated that Justin hasn't checked on it and pushed harder than what he has, I'm frustrated that we put so much "hope" into this whole thing to have nothing but let down after let down, I'm frustrated that it's taken soooo long and we still don't even have any answers at all about it. I'm just really frustrated, and really, really sad. It's just been a nightmare. He claims that he is going to talk to the CO this weekend (commanding officer) and find out what he needs to do to get some answers. This will be the first time the CO has heard of any of this because he is supposed to go up his COC (chain of command) which is what he's been doing the last 10 months and gotten no where, so it could be good, or it could get ugly..... I just want SOMETHING. Even if it's a "no" answer, at least we will know! At least we can move on to something else and figure out what our "life plan" is going to be now. I just feel so out of my element not having a plan, just sitting and waiting... and waiting. It's hard and it sucks. We just want to know, one way or another, we just want answers. Is that REALLY too much to ask???? :( So, I'm praying, and extra hard, this weekend, that he will get something done, that he will get some answers on this whole issue. I really am ok if it's a 'no' answer. I mean, will we be upset? yes. Will we be disappointed? yes. But we will move on. We just hate to get started on something else and then have this pop up and have to change the plans again. We just feel like we need to end one thing before we get started on another. Do we have other ideas of stuff we could do? Yes. But we are wanting to get a definite answer on this, first. *Sigh* I'm just mentally exhausted from this whole thing, and I'm ready for it to be over. He's talking again about OCS if this doesn't work. He's going to see what kind of PFT he runs in March and go from there. We figure if he doesn't get in there at least we exhausted all of our options with the USMC before turning somewhere else, but hopefully we won't have to go that route and start all over. But, we'll see......
Anyway, I don't really have anything else to say, I just needed to vent for a minute about all of that. I'll update tomorrow or Sunday after we know something. He said he's going in first thing in the morning to talk to him, so we'll see what happens...............
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