I'm Getting Out WHEN?!?

Oh, you dont' know, either?

Published on August 17, 2005 By pseudosoldier In Work

Timeline of events:

Sunday Night: I attempt to sign up for an online class (History II) to start some time in September, after I go to the promotion board and are out of the language refresher course I am in.

Five minutes later: What do you mean I won't have enough time to finish the course before I get out of the Army?!?

Five minutes later: What do you mean my ETS date is 30SEP05?

Monday Day: I inform my acting Squad Leader, and the SSG who is acting like my squad leader, that I have to figure this out. They suggest I check both my ERB and my LES.

Monday Night: My ERB has an ETS date of 30SEP05, and my LES has an ETS date of 30NOV05. So... I get out at the end of next month, but still get paid after that? WTF?

Tuesday Day, morning: I go to the company. Everyone is at Command & Shaft. I am informed by a PFC I have never seen before that we have no company clerk right now.

Tuesday Day, afternoon: I go to the company. Everyone is in a training meeting. The PFC is there, as is a SPC. The SPC is willing to pretend that she will address my issue. She recommends that I go to S-1, just as I begin to say that I'm going to S-1.

Five minutes later: S-1 actually sees me, takes my pay inquiry, and I leave. (S-1 SGT: I don't know if they do ERB corrections with a pay inquiry... I guess we'll send it up and see what they say!) (WTF?)

Tomorrow... I should hear back tomorrow. Or the next day.

Fact: My actual ETS date is 28SEP06. My unit was stop-lossed until 30SEP06, so I was involuntarily extended for the period of two days, which went into effect in April of this year.

Theory: When they "fixed" the other stop-lossed soldiers' ETS dates, they "fixed" mine as well. All soldiers who were stop-lossed past their original ETS dates had that date moved to 30SEP05.

Further Conjecture: They mistakenly "fixed" my LES date, thinking that I had applied for an exception to policy to extend my service (to use up the full Terminal Leave, like several soldiers in my unit).

Fact: Things are fucked up with my paperwork.

Ahib ul-Jaysh!

Comments

dharmagrl

on Aug 18, 2005

Ah, I see you have the same high quality personnel working at your military pay section as we have at ours! Aint it great?

ParaTed2k

on Aug 18, 2005

Too bad you don't have a set of Parachute Rigger Wings to use my old line on them!! lol

Another one of ParaTed2k's Slightly Less than Well Known Sayings "You're not headed home until your on the plain, and you're Not Out until there's a signature on your DD-214." Of course, as one who was "Stop Lossed" you know that all too well!! ;~D

pseudosoldier

on Aug 18, 2005

as one who was "Stop Lossed" you know that all too well

It's not even that, brother. I'm not due out until next September... I'm worried about a couple of things here:

1) I can't sign up for free college classes until I get this fixed.
2) There's an outside chance that my promotion packet will get kicked back because my ERB is incorrect. This probably wouldn't happen until after the promotion board, so I'd go through that torture for nothing...
3) If this isn't fixed in the next few months, they might stop paying me.

There's virtually no way that either my chain of command or my NCO support channel would let me out, or even stop coming to work. This has no upside any time soon... unless they fix it.

greywar

on Aug 18, 2005

If this isn't fixed in the next few months, they might stop paying me.

oh they will stop before that in point of fact... the last paycheck is delayed until they are sure you don't owe them anything...

Ahib ul-Jaysh indeed (and here I was feeling guilty that I put "minimal understanding of some Arabic" on my resume!)

Spc Nobody Special

on Aug 18, 2005

Like a bad bean burrito, it'll all come out in the end..........they didn't extend us to use up all the terminal though, unbeknownst to us, they decided that they could only extend us in thirty day increments from the original ETS, and they weren't going to tell anyone they chose not to process the papers until we came knocking.

Instead, we had to reapply, and then either sell some back or hang around a few more weeks. Ended up losing about 8/900 dollars, and getting my lest regular paycheck two weeks earlier.

Just don't let them do you like Sgt. Monobrow's prior pay problems. Barak allah bik!

pseudosoldier

on Aug 18, 2005

they decided that they could only extend us in thirty day increments from the original ETS, and they weren't going to tell anyone they chose not to process the papers until we came knocking.

You know, I tried to tell SFC Spadde this when he was going on about it at the beginning... he didn't want to hear anything about it (not that anyone else did, either; I believe I got shouted down by some soldiers who wanted everything to be hunky-dory like they were told it would be).

You can only extend in one-month increments. That's just the way it is. (<---this is me saying, "I was right all along")

Anyway, I'm sorry it didn't work out as optimally as it could have. And I won't let them get me like they got MB... even though neither of us has left yet, have we?

Moderateman

on Aug 18, 2005

Time for a visit to the

's office then a leapfrog to the Co's .. if that does not work maybe a visit to JAG {the local officer of course not Washington DC}

Good luck getting what you want.

MM

pseudosoldier

on Aug 25, 2005

Good luck getting what you want.

Ah, but what do I want...?

Well, damn, I dunno.

pseudosoldier

on Aug 26, 2005

Barak allah bik!

Shukran jazeelan, akhi.

I need to read your blog more thoroughly and more often. You posted a bunch of stuff while I wasn't looking.

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