Just when you thought you were stuck forever

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

The Jaeger's have some awesome news...


WE'RE MOVING!

Just as I stated above... It seems like anytime we told family/ friends our "plans" with the Military, we would soon find out that wasn't going to happen.

Anytime we went home we would end up telling them something different, from " We're getting out of the military" to "Eric's not only re-enlisting.. he wants to go Special Forces."

=D

Our family has been on a roller coaster right along with us.

We agreed after the SF interest came and went that it was better for all involved to just hear news when it actually is in writing or they are at the house with the moving van.


Then-

Then, the unthinkable happened!

We finally got orders!



For those who don't know what a big deal that is... well, it is.

Fort Hood is the largest Military facility in the world.
This large base is located in Central Texas and is home to the Army.

Well- mostly Army.

There are a handful of us Air Force stationed here due to the fact that my Husband is a Meteorologist and Army has the Air Force do that side for them. So here we are, 4 1/2 years later, literally stuck at this Army base with no end in site. Because, funny enough, it turns out Airmen don't really want to be stationed here. Ha! told you it was funny. That being said, it seems like Ft Hood was ALWAYS short-manned so no one was getting out of here. Unless of course you decide to get an over-seas assignment like Korea or even the occasionally lucky Germany.

So the question is.. How did we get orders?... to a non-overseas assignment??

I'm glad you asked. =)

I feel it's kinda a secret...


We outsmarted them.

(well I think so anyway)

Ha Ha!

And here is how I think so.

Long story short-
We knew we had to chose a place that needs people. Also, this place that we applied for is a non-deploy-able spot. Pretty cool, huh?

There is one little thing.

Hurricane Katrina did a pretty good number on it.

Biloxi, Mississippi.

Yikes, I know.

BUT

We are totally stoked for SO many reasons about this wonderful assignment.

First and foremost, we will be out of the never ending Ft Hood.

Second, this controlled assigment is an Instructor job at Keesler AFB.
Eric and I lived there for a summer while he went through some training, so we do know what to expect.

Third, if we didn't get out of Hood before May- Eric was due to deploy again for the third time since stationed here. Not a big deal because, frankly, I don't really like it when families complain horribly when their spouses are due to deploy. I feel it shouldn't come as a shock and yeah, it sucks, but it's what our men signed up for and it is part of the job. Not to get too much off topic but I also feel so incredibly proud of my Husband that he is involved in something so big that people say "they could never do". In the end though, someone does. For that, I will always be supportive and raise my Children to appreciate what Daddy does.

Anyway, back to the reason we wanted out of here when we did.
Right around that time is when we (hopefully) expect to have our second child.
We knew it was risky to try for our second one right around the time he would leave again, but we were looking in the long run and the grand scheme of things and we wanted our children to be close in age. Although this decision was hard, it was what we wanted.

Thank the Lord that this is something we don't have to stress about anymore as we are due to report to Keesler AFB in January 2011.

I prayed about this assignment and spent many nights crying over the possibility to have it.

We wanted it that bad.

Our prayers were answered.

We have been blessed in the past with Military things coming to our favor..

Example:

Even though we saved most of our bonus from the re-enlistment, if that didn't come back (Air Force took it away from that career field for a while and actually I just heard it was taken back once again)
If it didn't come back, I would have had no choice but to go back to work part time. I would have, of course, if that is what was needed to have my family thrive and it almost came down to that BUT the bonus came and helped us enormously through that tough decision.

With that said, I know how blessed we are with the career we have chosen.

All in all we are very excited about this new change and looking forward to our future.

I will update with any new information. Wish us luck!! =)





Now to sell our house....