So it seems as if the Army doesn't have positions available for all of the OCS guys to commission so what are they doing? They are finding any and every reason to recycle these guys back to OCS or chapter them out of the Army. A few days ago my husband told me he had to prove that he graduated from ERAU by providing a copy of his degree certificate and a copy of his transcripts to his cadre, but wasn't told when he had to have them. I got everything together and made photocopies of each page and thought I was being a good little wife and would send him the copies before he needed them. Monday morning rolled around and the package was sent off to Ft. Benning with a few other items he had asked for. Woo Hoo! He's ahead of the game and is going to be good to go.
NOPE....I get a phone call that afternoon and my heart sunk. He never calls at 2 in the afternoon. Since I wasn't able to call him back right away everything was running through my head, did he get re-cycled back to HHC, did he get hurt, what is going on, not another delay in training please. It turns out that he needed a copy of his transcripts and degree certificate that day no exceptions. I rushed home got them (thank god I did not send him the originals earlier that morning). I went straight to my moms office to fax them. Of course since so many wives/mothers/girlfriend/whoever was trying to send these in it wouldn't go through. Finally after trying for 45 minutes it worked. I was so worried that I went straight home and tried to scan and e-mail it to him as well. The scanner wasn't working. Of all days for it not to work, why TODAY? So off to the recruiters office I go.
SGT Thomas helped me out and scanned the documents in and sent them off to Ryan, but of course it was no easy task since internet explorer and outlook express both decided to stop working. We finally got connected to the internet and sent it through his personal e-mail. In the end he got it. :-) My visit with SGT Thomas and some of the other guys turned out good because I've been trying to figure out how I was going to get in to see a dermatologist and they told me a doctor that would help me out and get me a referal to go to the dermatologist.
All in all I had a good day. Got to relax a little, go shopping, sent a package off to Ryan, hiked for about an hour, faxed and e-mailed Ryan his proof of college graduation and got to talk to him on the phone twice. Wild Goose Chase of jumping through hoops for the Army for sure. We've gotta do what we've gotta do.
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