My battalion, who has been saying for MONTHS that there will be no partial attendance at annual training and no personally owned vehicles driven down decided LAST NIGHT that they'll authorize some partials.
I will be in Hawaii Aug 18-25 for a friend's wedding. He planned this wedding around the yearly training calendar that said annual training would be in July.
Battalion then moved it to August 6-22nd. So those of us attending the wedding pushed back and said well if there's no partials we can't go, we already have plane tickets, hotel reservations, and have RSVP'd to this wedding. It's not our fault you guys changed the date.
Flash forward to today. LAST NIGHT they decide they'll allow partial ATs. Now I'm supposed to be at AT. It starts FRIDAY.
I have one week off from work for Hawaii. Now I'm supposed to go to my boss on one week's notice and tell him that I'm sorry, I actually do have to go to the training thing that they said I didn't have to attend. I'm sorry it's fire season, I know we're busy, I know I have meetings, I know I have all kinds of stuff scheduled, but the Army changed it's mind!?!?!?!!? So now I'll be gone three weeks instead of one. Theoretically. My boss is NOT gonna be happy. *sigh*
Plus, I already signed up for correspondence classes to make sure I have enough points for a good retirement year (it's a reserves thing) towards my 20 years. So I don't NEED annual training. And frankly, I'm not that important. I don't know who decided that I just HAVE to go to AT. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Michelle - Proud DR Rockette S: 28JUL07, D'd: 29OCT09 http://tinyurl.com/27j9qo2
