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Originally posted by alum
It's one of the many things I love about the military life. Everything is so clear-cut.
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I think you and I are definitely on the same page with that, alum! I guess the way my mind works, I like everything in orderly, neat little boxes and the Navy is great for that. Plus the friends you make, you keep forever. You know you're never going to *not* see someone again (unless the unthinkable happens), it's only a matter of where and when.
Mr. KR's plebe year roommate called two days before he set foot in the US after two years to say he was coming in from Belgium to teach at a conference. Sorry for the short notice; could we get together? Damn straight we could get together, and we had a blast.
The only down side is the financial aspects of serving ones country. Mr KR is in the Reserves and he was called up for six months of active duty in 2002. He was a pretty senior O4 at the time which means the Navy was expecting us to live on XXX amount of dollars for those six months and, believe me, it could not be done. We had a certain lifestyle we were accustomed to and that paycheck wasn't going to be able to finance it. And we don't live some outrageous, Paris Hilton-like life either!!! lol I'm talking home expenses, lessons, school for the girls, a car payment and just regular day to day stuff. The military does not give you much to work with.
Thank heavens the company he works for paid the difference between his base pay in the Navy and his base pay in his civilian job so that was definitely a load off my shoulders. Mr. KR's, too, since you don't want to have to worry about your family when you're over there getting something called "eminent danger pay"
