We are having reenlistment issues.
My husband is reenlisting, but it is turning into a huge mess and I am getting very annoyed. Whoever said that it was an easy process *coughBILcough* was seriously mistaken.
First off, my husband was told that he has to reenlist 90 days before his CONTRACTUAL ETS date. Or else. Because apparently they don't have to let him because the numbers are up so much this year. (Thank you shiteous economy)
Secondly, our plans for getting a duty station are dashed because due to the stop loss, he has more than a year left with the 82nd. Therefore, they are telling him that he can't get a duty station because of having more than a year left on his stop loss contract.
Okay, so is anyone else seeing what I am seeing? Seeing the fact that we are getting screwed over by this stop loss? I wasn't angry about the stop loss because we had plans on reenlisting anyway but now I am.
And I call bullshit on this whole thing because his friend (who reenlisted to get out of deployment BTW) reenlisted the day after his window opened and still got a duty station. With two years left on his original contract.
So guess what they told him? To reenlist for two years and then reenlist again after 6 months to a year for a duty station. Well, he is afraid to do that because then he will enter back into the life cycle of his unit.
So we might be staying a Bragg just to avoid complication. Which I am pretty sure is what they wanted in the first place.
2 comments from the peanut gallery:
After 18 months in one place, your husband can put in a request to his branch manager for a change of station. We are working on that right now to get to Germany.
We got the re-enlistment run around too. Hubbys ETS isn't until 2011. They knocked 10,000 off his bonus and told him that a PCS wasn't offered for his MOS and because the Army numbers were so high, re-classing (which was his first option and only reason to re-enlist once his window opened) was not an option for his MOS.
I seriously feel you but have him talk to branch and also check out the requisition board on AKO.
My husband is thinking of re-enlisting also, but I have heard from my brother-in-law in Korea that they are making it extrememly difficult for soldiers to re-up because the numbers are up because of the economy. Its retarded, you figure that they would treat their own soldiers better than that.
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