The Kayla

I know that ROTC and OTS are two different things.. There were a few guys in my DH's OTS class that where priors dating girls in the AF.. and I think* that they had a brief on it.. to either hurry up and get married or to end the relationship..

I have a friend who is down at Tinker now, we went by teh officer housing, and it sucked.. You would be better off moving off base, and collecting BAH..

I'm on standard, and I love it. Yes, it's more money, but I like the freedom that I have picking a docotr that I wante, and being able to set up an appointment, and not having to do the same-day appointment BS(I just had to go through that at Maxwell..) The tri-care website will give you great information, if you can go on base, and they have a tri-care Rep at the Hosp/clinic(like Maxwell did) you can go there and talk to them. I do know more people who have their kids on Standard due to the "same day appointment" BS. With me being "standard" if I'm out of my home area, and I need to see a Doctor, I can go straight to Urgent care, and not have to call tri-care and get an approval first-- you do with Prime. If I have to go to the ER, I have to call with in 24hrs to let tri-care know i went.. (I went to the ER the night of Dec. 26th and I went to Urgent care on March 10th, while I was in Maxwell". The only "crappy" part about standard-- is if you are on base, you are only seen by a doctor if there was a cancellation-- you are on stand by to see a doc at base. But, if you are out of your home area, just go to Urgent care.. Also, if you can, go to teh family supprt-mumble jumble(they keep changing the name) and ask them questions as well, they SHOULD know/have answers and if they dont, they should know who to send you too... the family support deals with new spouses, so that would be your best place to go for ANY information about the AF in general. Being on Prime or standard is your call, you need to do what ever is best for you and your family. Me being on Standard, I have more control over my doctors and who I see and when I see them.. on prime, you aren't always that lucky.

hrmmm... one could take that in many different ways... hrmmm

A lot of people live in Surprise AZ, If you can, depending on what your DH does, it's a good time to buy a house down there, my friend(her DH is a Comms Officer) bought their brand new house for $175k.(somewhere around there) If my mind is clear, the reason the house wait list is so long is because they are replacing the housing. Luke is "nifty" base. It has a "commercial" side(but that side has dorms) and then the "residental" side, where housing, BX, etc. is. I live about 1.5hrs away, but I have to go to luke for anything.. If you like, I can swamp emails and you and my friend can talk.. she would be the best person to talk, I hate AZ, so you won't hear anything "nice" about AZ from me.

You need passports to go everywhere now.. Mexico and Canada as well.

I'm on a AF spouse's site.. and that got brought up.. I want to say that the "moral" of that story was that some people dont want to test, don't want to get promoted.. Some just aren't test takers.. etc, the list goes on.. on a different forum(I'm on way too many)another wife said the same thing, and a guy, who went from E to O, put her in her place real fast..

I just don't see the big deal.. Why did this make the news(military or not..).. I mean.. Let's make a big deal about world peace, wolrd hunger, innocent people--men, women, kids are getting killed everyday, in every country.. What's the big damn deal with this chick posing nude?? Big deal. She is being "taken care of" if you will. She got booted. Let's MOVE ON.. Seriously.. Women need to get a pair and get over what other women do..

hehe.. I like your way of thinkin'!

I know the Military bases offer sub-campuses.. Can spouse's use those?

Maybe I can answer that: domestic adoptions can be orverturned. Either the birth father wasn't consented about the adoption in the first place, he didnt know about the kid.. etc. Or the mom changed her mind.. No adoption is set in stone and can "never" be overturned. I asked the same question you just did, two years ago. and I had a nice lady answer me(this was on my GSD site). She had adopted two kids in the USA. She had both kids for a few yrs. both adoptions got overturned because a birth parent wanted to come back into the picture, and the judge OKed it. She Adopted two kids internationaly.. She still has them. This is going on year number 7 for them, I think. Adopting alone is a very rewarding thing.. you are giving a child a second chance at a life that they might not of had a chance to have. I'm all for adoption/adopting. But I wouldn't do a domestic adoption, for the fear of having my heart broken in X-years because the adoption got overturned. YOu have to go into adoption with you eyes wide open.. I have a dear friend who was adopted, she knows how I feel.. and she doesn't care.. She's ALL for any type of adoption. Another thing: in the USA, orphanes are taken care of, so to speak.. they are "unwanted" by their birth family)not being PC here, so no lashing), but they are still none the less, "wanted". in other countries.. unwanted children are just that, unwanted. The only chance they have at a GOOD childhood is by being adopted. That's just my opinion, Like I stated before, adoption is GOLDEN no matter if you adopt here in the USA, or overseas. You are still giving a CHILD.. no matter what race/sex/religion etc. a SECOND chance at a good life..

Congrats on your new lil' girl! I've noticed that prices vary depending on the age of the child and where you get the child from(Russia, Japan, etc). for example, I was lookin' at adoption prices for a Russian child, and it ranged from $20k-$25k plus. As where, there was a country next to russia, It started with a "K", and adoption prices started at $10k, and it went up from there.

I find it interesting that you say that: I'm also on afots.com, and I was told by some one.. one of the Mods, that if I wanted MY career, that my family would fail. He told me that there was no such thing as having your own career and a GOOD military Family. The best part of that convo was that Dave backed me up, and told me that he wanted me to have my career(minus a few choice words we said about that mod).

I've said that, and it works. Dave went TDY last year for 6months. And people would always say "oh I'm sorry!..' or some crap like that, and I was getting bothered by it, so I finaly said "Why?".. the look they gave me was priceless. Before they could respond I said "This is his job. I knew that going into the relationship..". It shut them up pretty fast. My DH just left for OTS yesterday, and I was talking to one of his class mates on AIM. I asked him if he was gonna be missing any important dates while he was gone, and he said No.. He asked me if my DH was. And I said yes, my birthday(2nd one). He responded with "What do you want me to tell Dave to get you?" heheheh I sent him the link to the necklace I want (it's a funny story, thought that I would share.. hehe) like some one else said, be happy that they are "carring". I've gotten some pretty dirty looks/comments when some one hears me say "Oh my Husband is gonna be a AF pilot.." I live in a hippy town :rolleyes: love you Girl!

I dont live there, I have a friend who does though. I would say, stay on base.. you will be looking at high rent, and buying a house there.. unless you are rolling in the $$$$.. It is very expensive to live there. There is a 20% increase on prices because they all have to be shipped in.

1- Learn to TRUST your guy.. with out that, your relationship isn't worth a damn. 2- deployments are deployments are deployments... almost everyone will have to go through one, if not more. They aren't fun, but, thats something the your guy signed up for when signed the papers saying "I'm going to join the USAF". Deployments are what you make of them. If you live by the phone day in and day out, if you think "Oh, he hasn't called me... he must be at teh bar looking at other chicks.." thats going to be a long long long deployment. 3- are you type A personality? If you want friends, you will have them.. they aren't just gonna come to you.. well.. There's the O club, there's getting a job, or taking classes at the local college. There's going the gym, there's "Hearts apart"(or something similar)if he gets deployed. The "friends" are out there, YOU just need to go find them. 4--read "2--" 5-- Depending on the base you go too, and the community around that base.. You can also get a civie job on base. Spouse's get priority to job positions, with the exception of Vet's or current military Ret.'s. As far as that nursing comment goes.. I've wanted to be a nurse since before I met my now DH. To be honest, its a job that will always have high demand.. I can go anywhere, and *almost always* have a job. Fuse know's my take on this. I think I came down the hardest on him about his wife(ex?). Monica will be nicer then I will be so talk to her.

Good god... I'm about to ask some one to please explain to me what all this " T-38 FAIP when there was only one (T-38) track" means.. Monica, I think the moral of this Thread is that guy's are going to want to fly what they want. I don't think it matters if they want to fly fighters or heavies.. as long as they do their job teh right way the first time around. Who cares if they want to fly fighters or not. More power to them. hell, i'm not even in the military, just married...and I can understand WHY they would want to fly fighters... the thrill the excitement.. even bragging rights.

Try an oline school, like U of Phx. [ 11. October 2006, 13:22: Message edited by: lcgsdmama ]

Thats what my husband is now doing... Keeping an open mind. He wouldn't mind flying fighters.. he wouldn't ming flying heavies.

If you WANT to get involved you WILL get involved. BTW, what Tidal Wave said, about beign able to sleep in the middle of the bed.. its true... I'm on countdown till my husband leaves, just so that I can sleep in the middle of the bed!

My husband went to ERAU in Prescott. He graduated in 2005. He didnt do ROTC, because it would have been pointless for him to do it, and something about setting him back? Not sure about that one. But, he was AD for teh AF for 7yrs when he went to ERAU, and then became a AFR for the past 2yrs. So when he wasnt at school he was at Travis doing his AFR thing. he just got a pilot slot for the AF.

Sprint is 15% off... FootLocker is 10%-15% off..

So, would it be safe to say that you get your UPT base assignment about a month before you garduate?

OKie.. I'm From CALI.. I was Born in Napa Valley, Raised in Vallejo. I met my husband while he was at travis, he lived in Vacaville, then moved to Davis to rent out a house with his buddies, then we moved back to Suisun. EVERY TOWN is going to have good parts and bad parts.. Keep THAT in mind, will ya? I know some cpls who live outside the "limits" so that they can get paid more? I'm not sure HOW the ligistics to that work.. but they live so many miles away from the base, that the base pays for gas, or some crap like that. If you want to live on the 80East side: Fairfield, VV, Sac, Davis, Dixon, Cordilia, FF, VV, Suisun CIty, Rio-something(Its on the other side of the 12), If you want to be on the other side of the 12: Napa, American Canyon, Yontville, St. Helena, Lake Berryessa, There's also: Benicia(I went to high school here) Glen Cove Concord Walnut Creek Black Hawk Antioch(sp?) Martinez Theres a ton more cities, I just cant think of their names. I went to College In walnut Creek. Benicia is beautiful, its by the bay... I lived there.. went to high school there... *sigh* memories... But, you'll be paying a pretty penny to live there. Now, If you're *cough* lazy *cough cough like my husband...couch cough* Then you're going to want to stay closer to the the FF area(now, I'm not saying that you have to stay IN FF, just NEAR the area..) Traffic is CA is a B!tch. There is no way of sugar coating that. You live with it, you get used to it.. its just part of they daily grind.. Good Luck. PM me if you want more info. I can give you info on a rental agent who's a vet, who likes to work with Military couples, or solos, whatever the case may be. I also know a name of a great couple who are in the rental biz who perfer to rent to military people. Lemme know.. [ 17. May 2006, 02:51: Message edited by: lcgsdmama ]

We have USAA for our Insurence, both Home and Car. If you have dogs.. They wont question you.. I have TWO german Sheps. and one Rottie.. and they didnt even blink, or threaten to up or Insurence rates because of that. If you have a certain breed, GSD, ROTTIE, Dobe, Pitt, etc. You might wanna look into USAA. Some insurence companies wont even look at you if you have some of those breeds. We bank with B of A. Thats because my husband has been with them since he was 16. eh, I'm not a fan.. but hey.. so far they haven't pissed me off just yet...