Ok, this is what happened today:  The documentation that was supposedly requested from Peterson on Thursday was still sitting, unsent,  on the desk 1/2 a mile away from here this morning.  I had Lonesome call Texas and ask them if I could please just go fax it to them and get all the ducks in a row so the evaluation and decision process can start.  Peterson hadn't made any contact with Ellsworth whatsoever, why I don't know....but anyway, Lonesome got the relevant fax numbers, I went to the office that had the paperwork and I stood and watched the Airman fax them off.  So, they now have all the documentation they need. 

Now we still have to wait...they said 2 weeks, but the way things have been going I'm expecting the 2 week mark to roll around and them to still not have an answer for us - in which case the E-9 will be called again and I'll be having a nervous breakdown.  I'm going to ask Lonesome to call them this time next week, then at the 2 week mark. We really don't want to piss anyone off, after all they're the ones who'll be deciding where our next assignment is to....but at the same time we want to know where the hell we're going! 

 You know, this causes all kinds of animosity between us, and I hate that.  Lonesome thinks I'm yelling at him or getting on him for it, and I'm not. I just have questions that I'd like answers to and seeing as how I'm not the one making the calls and speaking directly with the individuals involved and he is...well, he's going to be the one I ask.  In case you were wondering, it's not my place to ask the questions directly.  To do so would not only be embarrassing for Lonesome, I would be undermining his position in front of his superiors, and the military doesn't like that at all (and neither do I, I'm not going to do that to my husband).  My talking to the Chief and the Shirt yesterday wasn't official...we've known both of them for a while, and it was more friendly advice than it was anything else.  Lonesome going to his Chief..now, that was offical. 

So, that's where we're at now.  I find it very sad that it took this long to get all the documentation together - and I find it equally sad that the solution I proposed last week, the one that got shot down by AFPC as being not realistic or necessary, was in fact the one that ended up being effective.

So, now we wait...again.