There's a little tongue-in-cheek, but there's too much bitterness in there for it to come through...
Case in point, tell you what give you two:
1. Check in to NAS Barbers Point. Waiting list for base housing 13+ months. I get in 22nd on the list. Four months later I'm up to #5, I'm happy. I check in a week later and I'm back to #11!?!? What happened? 6 VP guys check in and bump me down the list and they've only just gotten to the island! But because the PATWING stamps their orders as arriving the day they detach VT-31. Not the day they actually arrive on island. So their report dates are almost nearly 13+ months before they even show up, so they jump to the head of the line. The pisser is when I figure this out and talk to the housing people about it. They just shrug their shoulders and give me the, "...it's the way it is". How's that for equitable?
2. I'm PCS'ing from NAS Corpus. I go to personal property to set up my pack up. The dry erase board at customer service says, "Making appointments for pack outs 5 wks from now". I talk to the lady at the desk and she says unless I have a desired pack out date 5 wks from now, I have to come back 5 wks from the day I want. It's five months out from when I want a pack out. I think it's a bit odd, but OK. I'll come back.
I come back 8 wks from my pack out date am very rudely informed that I should have come in as soon as I got my orders. Uh... I think that's what I did wasn't it?!? I tell them the whole story... no responsibility accepted on their part. Long story short, they don't know who told me about the 5 wks thing, and that they are already booked 3 months out (I PCS in 2 months), and they have nothing for me. If I want to complain they hand me a DD form and am told that I can mail it to some 0-7 on D.C. No accountability for the woman and the dry erase sign that told me about the 5 wks fiasco in the first place.
Long story short, they had a cancellation and were able to pack me out in 1 wk. It was that or nothing. So my pregnant wife and I slept in an empty house for 7 weeks on a the floor living out a small DIY pack move box... Pregnant wife, sleeping on floor and the fat GS's at PPD couldn't care less. Nasty cusses.
No apologies, or even accountability from Corpus personal property. Angers me till this day.
There's too many regs and checks and balances in the three AF moves I've done for that to have happened. I know AF has it's horror stories too. I just haven't lived through one yet. I've lived through too many Navy horror stories.
