Job of the Month, February!
Update on the Job of the month... Jared has been off
orders since Counterdrug went bust in WA state due to funding so he was doing
the Daddy Daycare thing and flying missions here and there for the guard. Now
they have him filling in for a pilot that has been grounded but he is not on
military orders they just picked him up as a contractor so he is the same as me
right now a government employee. Although he is on a contract I think he said
it was for 4 months but then they extended him for a year but I honestly am not
sure because of all the budget cuts if that will really be for a year. I know
confusing!
Anyway, this Job really does not help us to get closer
to our goal of retiring in 20 years since he is not fulltime Guard right now, he
is just doing the one weekend a month right now. This fill-in pilot position
does nothing for our time in service.
Right now the military is down sizing and although he
has really good reviews they are not taking more pilots in the Active Army at
his rank unless you go special forces, so he just submitted his packet for a
unit called the 160th, they are special aviation opps and we are hoping that
will get us to the 20 years mark. Although we both are not big on the idea
because it is a lot of away time and weird schedules. We have had
several friends in the past that have been part of this unit and it has not been
favorable on marriages. Not our first choice by any means!
Not sure at this point if it is even worth it to stay
in 20 years active duty because they are cutting the funding to so many programs
and medical. So we will see where this road takes us.
