Have you ever noticed how the Army has a way of ruining every plan you try to put in place? I sure have. I almost didn't get married because the Army felt it was necessary to wait until the last possible minute to approve Kyle's 4-day pass to come home to get married. They also cut my Christmas break short this year, insisting that Kyle attend Warrior Leader Course that started on January 3rd. That didn't really bother me though. I was prepared to go the 17 days without seeing my husband.
The course changed with the new year though, it isn't a 'live-in' course anymore. Which means that everyday, Kyle would get up at 0400 and return home at 2000 (8pm). In theory, most would agree that seeing your husband over not seeing your husband would be good. I think I disproved that theory. If Kyle didn't have to come home every night, he would be able to sleep in an extra hour, and cut off an extra half hour of driving home every night, so he'd get to sleep earlier. He was EXHAUSTED. He would come home every night, eat supper, shower and go to bed. Talk about interaction with each other!
He did manage to do VERY WELL in the course, he graduated "Distinguished Honor Graduate" which is basically the Valedictorian of Army courses. He graduated this past Thursday, and had put in a 4-day pass in order to spend some much needed time with me! All was good until Friday around one (when we finally rolled out of bed!). He had 2 missed calls from his squad leader. Someone of higher ranking had decided that the band needed to send someone to the NCO of the Quarter board. And Kyle was the only NCO who had an up to date board packet ready. Guess who gets their 4-day pass taken away to go to the board on Monday?
For all of you who don't know what a 'board' is, let me give you a few hints. To get promoted to e-5 or above, a soldier must participate in a 'promotion board'. At the promotion board, the soldier is drilled with questions by higher ranking soldiers. These questions can pretty much be about anything Army related. There are numerous 'study guides' and websites which have questions that may be asked at a board. There are also 'competition boards'. These are boards like the NCO of the Quarter board, if you win this board, you can compete for NCO of the year and stuff like that. Kyle hates competition boards, if you don't believe me, just ask him.... he has like a 15 minute rant about them.
Needless to say, Kyle is not happy about having to go to this board on Monday, and since they took away a day of his vacation in order to do it, he's even more pissed. We had actually toyed around with going to Vegas over this weekend, but decided not to, as the in-laws were going to come visit.
Oh... and another rant. Kyle's parents. They told us over Christmas they would be coming down this weekend to deliver us our deep-freeze. Apparently it was decided that they weren't coming because of the weather. Funny thing is, my GRANDMA drove down to Branson this weekend... and Kyle's parents are afraid to drive. Nice. So they decided that they're coming next weekend. Didn't ask us if we were busy or not, just told us they were coming. I find that very rude. So, on Wednesday, we're going to call them and tell them that we have something to do... and eff up their plans for the weekend :) *evil laugh*
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