Military Monday's - Training and Staff Duty

I found this new carnival from a friend who was participating in it this week, and it seems like fun!

So we're suppose to write about something Military related that has happened in the last month or so...EASY!

I'm gonna back to March though, because that is when he went in for some new training, and that has led to some of the things that have happened up to now, and plus, it's only April 5, so March ended not so long ago!

My hubs had to go to a 2 week long JFO course, luckily it was on island, and he didn't have to go to Oklahoma for 2 weeks. Luckily for us, also, he passed the course, if he had not have passed he would surely have had to go to Oklahoma for 2 weeks to take the course, as that was the last cycle they were doing on island, until November. But he finished, passed, and within a few days was moved to a new battery!

Which brings me to the next big thing that has happened for us! He is now in charge of 5 enlisted soldiers, and in a few months will be the Platoon leader, in charge of 40 some guys! His battery is getting a new commander in a few weeks, and so they are super busy getting things ready for the change of command, and since he now has an actual position in a battery he is super busy. Which is a big jump from where he was before this class, sitting in an office playing games on his phone. Yes folks, the Army paid him to sit in an office and do NOTHING! I joked with him about how all the times he complained about sitting around doing nothing is going to look great since he now is go, go, go all day!

According to his LES we should be getting a raise this month since it'll be his 2 year mark. But we aren't holding our breath, seeing as he's been Active Duty for less than a 1 year. I've heard though, that they base this on when you started getting paid, and he started getting paid 2 years ago this month! A raise would be great right now! It wouldn't be much, but it'd help!

Another thing he's had to do is Staff Duty, which if it is just Battalion Staff Duty you just go in a couple times through the night to make sure things are alright, or they'll call you if something goes wrong. If it is Brigad Staff Duty you have to spend the night in Brigad. Well, Steven switched with someone so he had Brigad Staff Duty one night and then 2 nights later had Battalion Staff Duty. His Brigad Staff Duty just happened to be on a DONSA (Day of no scheduled activity) which meant he had to go in at 9am and stay until 9am the next day. YUCK! And the power went out at our house for the WHOLE night, I was scared. I never sleep well when he has Brigad Staff Duty (this was his second time) and the whole power going out on my way to bed, didn't help! But it was all good. The power ended up coming back on at 8 in the morning.

That's about all I can think of that has happened in the last month. There are a lot of pregnant wives in our Battalion, but I think that has to do with the fact that they got back from a deployment in October!

Hope you enjoyed my first time doing Military Monday!

Thanks for stopping by!!