Screwed by military...?
923534
Bad idea, I was in the navy also. The last thing you want when your underway for a extended period is to have your girl just a few feet away and not being able to express your feeling to her. \n\nGood luck!
105590
Call Marine Services and they can answer legal questions. The situation of active duty , out on ship ,etc...,. The goverment has it's own practices and guardlines to follow.If you feel you've been wronged in any way , call a lawyer that specailizes in U.S. services rights ! If in active duty make sure if legal actions ,That you know what you may be getting into a very poor situations with Officers in service .
286554
You must go to the base that they are on. Most Commanders don't like it when this happens either. You will get what you want right away. Ask for a supervisor when you get there and you will have no problem. There are company's that do this for a living if you do not want to do this.
929710
Oh boy, I've got terrible news and I hate to even write this - but there is some good news, kind of. First, everything finance has said to date is correct. For pay purposes, only active time can be counted, hence his 4 years + 18 months would put his pay at 5 and 1/2 years approximate. For retirement purposes, they will count the whole stint. (This is the difference between his BPED and BASD dates). It sounds like the initial PSB screwed the pooch on this one. Worse yet, it would also change his eligibility for certain bonuses - so this all sounds legit. Now the semi-good news. If he goes to his finance office, he can have those repayments extended out further (in fact, they can even spread them out over the rest of his contract) under a financial hardship request. His chain of command will have to approve it - but that will be a rubber stamp (or should be). If you need immediate relief (i.e. they already took the money and you are short for bills and what not) you can go to your installation ACS (Army Community Service) and apply for an AER (Army Emergency Relief) loan. His command normally has to approve that as well - but you should be able to process it through his rear detachment. This is terrible that someone's error can so negatively effect you - and no - it sure doesn't seem right. Unfortunately, it is what it is and I wish you the very best. Thank you both for your service.\n\nI would check 2 additional locations for relief. One I recommend, the other I would be wary to do. #1 - have him notify his chain of command FIRST, and then file an IG complaint and request relief from the debt through them. (I imagine your command is going to support this action). The other action is congressional. The problem with a congressional inquiry (writing your congressman for action) is that it takes a significant amount of time as it will first get routed to his unit and bounce around before it finally lands on the PSB and Finance. This also tends to irritate folks beyond all belief and can get your husband a reputation - not all that positive. I would wait to pull the congressional trigger as a last minute, desparate shot. Use the IG and Finance first. I can't make any promises, but this sounds like the best shot. Unfortunately, I have known a few soldiers who have gone through similar "corrections" and have never seen the debt forgiven. They will spread it out as much as possible, but I think you may be up against a long shot. I truly apologize - it shouldn't be like this.
245653
Don't stress out about it. Phones are few and far between, and the military schedules don't often coincide with the soldier's personal desires. I'd give it a few days, if not a few weeks before I'd get worried.
1112135
It's possible that military contracts are eating into supply. I did read that the DoD did farm out some ammo contracts to meet demand. Usually all military ammo comes from the Lake City Arsenal.
258647
Instead of crying about it on yahoo, you should spend your time cleaning and maintaining your gear. If you are going to spend anytime in the army you should know enough to get an extra set of junk for inspections. Jeez the way the army is today they probably made you an E-5...
870703
It really is impossible to say one way or the other.  There is no way whether he could know for certain that he will not be deployed.  If someone guaranteed him that he won't go then they were lying ---  especially since he hasn't even finished tech school -- so he doesn't even have orders yet for his first assignment and won't have them until he is almost done with school.
825456
you know how the military is. i would check with the or about manning and see how many slots are still open and if they have any inbounds coming to fill them. if you know anyone that works assigments at mpf they might be able to hook you up.\ni would just talk to my first shirt about it and tell him the truth. if he's not  an ass then maybe he would understand. i don't know however if you can get a waiver to go before a promotion board? i worked in the orderly room for 4 years and never heard of anyone doing that before? you know how it is though, start at the lowest level and work your way up. sorry to hear about the situation, that sucks! you must be stationed in san antonio? good luck!
124012
Yes, something is very wrong.  Is there anything we can do about it?  Perhaps if American manufacturers were more diligent in pursuing Army contracts, and provided the military with good products at reasonable prices, we wouldn't have this frustrating situation.
1134914
sorry i cant give my address already to many strangers got due to my picture flying through the internet. but try to find a friend that happens to be a soldier near by his AKO acct has acces to the information you request. Hopefully he/she is willing to help you. the army is a big place so unless you know what unit he went to its like finding a needle in a stack of needles.I used to see this all the time in Bragg, people would ask for their son/brother etc if we know them . And we keep telling them without their unit or MOS we cant narrow down anything due to our post being the size of a city.
1170310
He might as well just stay where he is. He wont be able to get out completly with an honorable discharge. If he were to switch to another branch (very difficult to do, you should contact your local recruiting station) his time would restart and he would end up staying in the armed forces longer.
317977
don't worry about stuff like that until you know for sure, my husband is infantry and he has lost 8 guys with about 12 seriously wounded, if i was scared all day long, i would be crazy by the time he came home, plus, i have been there, not infantry but transportation, and i can picture his day to day life right now, so it is hard, but hang on, he will be home soon.  Also, I deal with it this way, if my husband does not make it home,  i know he was doing something he thought was right and wanted to be there and i would honor him for that.   go to the department of defense website, they list causalties. the address is dod.gov/releases/
405640
You should get in touch with the VA.  My uncle had the same problem as was able to collect $100K for back benefits.  Talk about a life changing event!
1091753
Sounds like you're screwed. (no pun intended)
1144722
I'm ex-military and live in the largest military installation in the world.\nBeing ex-Navy you know exactly where I live.\n\nForgot about it dude, take your General, Other than Honorable and move on with your life.\nIf you get injured while on duty now...they will NOT allow you time to even rehab.\nIf you are not Duty-Ready IMMEDIATLEY FOR DEPLOYMENT....you ain't in and you ain't gonna be in.\n\nThey are having SEVERE problems presently, and will not even give you the time of day, certainly not take the time to even give you a hearing.\nThey won't give active duty personal hearings, let alone a boot.\n\nIt's pretty ridiculous, there are plenty of people WILLING to go Active Duty and STAY Active Duty but the cadre simply doesn't have the time or the ability to allow a process like an upgrade of a discharge.\n\nOne thing you MIGHT try......try a sympathetic ARMY recruiter.\nThey are DEPARATE for full time Active Duty bodies.\nIt wouldn't matter anyway.....they are now pulling SAILORS OFF SHIPS and training them WITH the Army for various "desert security forces".\nI kid you not.\nScary business.\n\nGood luck sailor.
275426
Being in the Army is a plus on your side.  Take all your evidence to is commanding officer and tell him your side of the story.  They tend to frown on things like these.  Tell them you cannot afford a lawyer and that you are concerned for their safety.  Let them take it from there.