ShadesOn

Good luck getting parking at the Pentagon. I was there for five years and paid to park across the street and walk under 395 for at least two of those years. I paid to park in Crystal City for the other three. I had a 36 mile commute from Loudoun County, and it took me almost two hours every day because the entire DC metro area is in a constant state of construction. Oh, and I paid about $300/month in tolls. I had a reasonable mortgage on a 2700 sq ft townhouse, but I could have gotten something in Burke or Fairfax for a similar price if I had been willing to sacrifice some square footage. I recommend the Virginia side of the river over the Maryland side (I have done both), and you should try to be near a metro or a slug lot. Driving will be a time consuming challenge no matter where you live.

He wasn't that great. He is notorious in the big five-sided building for taking existing concepts, changing one element, and renaming them to make himself look like a genius. He begrudgingly took the Deputy job assuming he would get the pilot seat eventually, and when it didn't happen he made everyone under him miserable for months, myself included. He may have been able to pull off some astounding back door acquisitions while he was the AT&L Director, but he added no value as the DSD. The Department would do well to have someone like Frank Kendall or Bob Hale in that slot. Both understand well what warfighters actually need, and both are fiscally-minded. Neither are social climbers or power hungry ass hats.

How old are the pictures in that video? That is what Clovis looked like when I was there in 2003/2004.

Apparently, what happens TDY does not actually stay TDY. Unless you're in Vegas. The rules are different there. I saw it in a commercial once.