So not about Politics, because honestly I'd rather not blog about my stance. This is more about being ready for whatever Uncle Sam throws at you, even if all of your stuff is pack and you are minutes from heading to your new home. For us it is not that drastic. And so far, we are making out!
We were anticipating to change ships mid-June just after MrE's current ship comes out of the yards and goes through an inspection. He is currently the Cheif Engineer and figured he would have to partake in said inspection vs. throwing in a new CHENG just weeks before. Then his relief called with his orders to report in March, which would mean MrE may leave in April. No biggie. It just meant we'd take vacation sooner. He would have to get underway for a couple of weeks when the ship went back in the water. More time at home, score! After some chatting with his XO & CO, they figured staying with the ship through June may be best. Back to square one, which we had originally planned for. C'est la vie. The other day it got even better. MrE's XO said they would now most likely be letting him go 1 May. He'd have to go to a school the first week of May and then would have 30 days off, as long as the next XO/CO approve it. It pushes off our original vacation plan. He'll report to his next ship as the Training Officer (TrainO) early June. Life as the TrainO should be much better as the CHENG. Or so we're hoping! His next ship is also in the yards through mid-Fall. That means no underways (time at sea) until mid-Oct. I cannot even beging to tell you how happy this makes us. That isn't even the best of it. We've heard that the next big deployment has been pushed off until the fall of 2010 vs. the summer of 2010. We may not have to endure another 6mo+ deployment!!! It will only be about 3 months because MrE leaves that ship in Dec 2010 for shore duty. How great is this?
Now we just have to pray that enough changes have happened and this is the course karma keeps us on!
We were anticipating to change ships mid-June just after MrE's current ship comes out of the yards and goes through an inspection. He is currently the Cheif Engineer and figured he would have to partake in said inspection vs. throwing in a new CHENG just weeks before. Then his relief called with his orders to report in March, which would mean MrE may leave in April. No biggie. It just meant we'd take vacation sooner. He would have to get underway for a couple of weeks when the ship went back in the water. More time at home, score! After some chatting with his XO & CO, they figured staying with the ship through June may be best. Back to square one, which we had originally planned for. C'est la vie. The other day it got even better. MrE's XO said they would now most likely be letting him go 1 May. He'd have to go to a school the first week of May and then would have 30 days off, as long as the next XO/CO approve it. It pushes off our original vacation plan. He'll report to his next ship as the Training Officer (TrainO) early June. Life as the TrainO should be much better as the CHENG. Or so we're hoping! His next ship is also in the yards through mid-Fall. That means no underways (time at sea) until mid-Oct. I cannot even beging to tell you how happy this makes us. That isn't even the best of it. We've heard that the next big deployment has been pushed off until the fall of 2010 vs. the summer of 2010. We may not have to endure another 6mo+ deployment!!! It will only be about 3 months because MrE leaves that ship in Dec 2010 for shore duty. How great is this?
Now we just have to pray that enough changes have happened and this is the course karma keeps us on!
2 Comments:
But it's really the co-workers on the new ship he's looking forward to, right? :)
That's awesome :D Yay!
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