being an 0-1 with a good chunk of school to pay off, as well as one who counts on that extra BAH as a part of my income to help pay those bills
I agree with $50K in student loans to pay off @ $800/month in addition to car payment and trying to save.
Although you can pocket a fair amount people keep failing to point out the fact that you will be paying extra money for rent, utilities and the extra gas to drive to work depending on where you live...
My roommate and I have a two bedroom apartment and after utilities its $550 for each of us. So the extra $1000 a month is really closer to $400 (which is still better than nothing).
or getting a $550/month one bedroom apt with a better quality of life (fiance and family actually being able to visit over night and being able to have my dog again) and not having to pay for my own storage.
when I finally was able to get my own place I was happy as hell. Since then I've acquired enough stuff that it is more than a minor annoyance to move back into a barracks.
I'm also not looking forward to checking my pistol and shotgun into the armory.
Pets, yeah I have a couple. I do have arrangements to get them taken care of, but, had I known this was the case more than two-three weeks ago I would have done things differently on the move down here.
I know how you feel, I've acquired 3500 lbs of stuff and I have a mounted deer head and bass that will not survive the heat of a storage unit that isn't climate controlled.
I also have 2 rifles, 2 pistols, and a shotgun
I have a dog that my dad has taken care of while I was in corpus and they can't take care of it anymore that I will have to give away if I move in the Q.
Well, with that rationale he'll really like it if he's training somewhere that allows him to enjoy the time that he's not studying.
I know that my job is to study for my wings (and I will do what ever it takes to get them), but it sucks that I'll be moving within 200 miles of my fiance again (in addition to everything else) but not be allowed to have her come and visit at all.
We, as young ensigns, don't have any leadership experience, and we're learning how to be leaders based on our experience with our leadership and how we are treated personally. Am I supposed to be kosher with telling my men/women (one day in the future) that they have to give away their rights to seeing their fiance, that they will have to give away their dog, and they will have in incur more financial burden than what they previously experienced while not being deployed (its understandable with a deployment) at a moments notice?
I've learned from a mentor and role model of mine that the root of almost every problem and disagreement in the military (with leadership) is forgetting to educate or inform your men/women. Us flight students are showing up to whiting completely ignorant (at least us from corpus) because we haven't been officially informed of this policy by our command and are being surprised with this news when we show up to whiting. This whole situation and thread could be resolved by better communication between commands (even if it were just an email) so that we could know before hand and plan accordingly.
I'm sorry if I am being too analytical. but I have an industrial engineering degree and anyone with an engineering degree knows how annoying and analytical us imaginary engineers can be.