News Filled Week

Early in the week we got the list of available jobs/locations to PCS to. At first site I was not to happy with it, but after a little examination it is not too bad. I am still waiting on another listing that was supposed to be sent on the 26th. The directions from branch specifically said not to send in the preference sheet until the additional list was sent out. The additional list will have some O1A jobs on it. Those would mostly be non-branch specific. For example there might be some ROTC or other slots that MI branch has been tasked to fill. Human Resource Command (HRC) gets a big list of jobs that need to be filled. All of the MI jobs go to MI Branch to fill, but they also have to take their share of the non-branch specific jobs. Our top three on the list is Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia; Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, AZ; and Buckley Air Force Base in Denver, CO. I have several factors helping me out and making it look like I will get one of the top 3. My total time deployed, my job diversity (or lack there of) of assignments, and with this deployment my dwell time (time that I have been back from deployment) will be very low. All of those items should result in good outcome. Preference sheets have to be turned in by April 2nd and we should know on 16 April where we are going. Another big piece of news this week was the confirmation that I am on the promotion list to Major. My sequence number is 150. I will be able to predict about when I am going to be promoted after I find out how many are being promoted in May. I suspect it will be July or August before they get down to 150.