Well, I went to talk to someone 'in the know' at the base Finance Office about the recent travel fiasco Dave endured.

Bottom line is this: the reg. says what the reg. says, and that's that.

Doesn't make it right, but that's what it says and there's nothing we can do about it.

We're out a couple of hundred, and have the proverbial snowball's chance of recovering it.

Sometimes I really dislike the Air Force. I mean really, really dislike the Air Force.

But then I look at where we're living (rent and utility free), the money we're making, the Health Insurance (such as it is), the opportunites we've already been given and will continue to get -

-and i realize how a military life isn't so bad.

Could be worse.