Military Life: Expect the Unexpected!

Well, We Are Moving!!!!

That's right!  To PENSACOLA, FLORIDA!!!!!

Well, here is the long story, in case you were wondering.

On Tuesday, Jake called me on his way home from base early in the morning saying that they had made an announcement that all FC's waiting for orders who wanted to cross-rate were to go to this certain meeting.  That is military mumbo jumbo meaning that there were too many FC's (fire controllman - Jake's job in the Navy he kind of got placed in that he didn't really want) waiting for orders (waiting to get those papers that tell you where and when you are going next and what your speciality will be) so they were willing to let some of them cross-rate (change their jobs).  Well, Jake went to just see what was available.  He texted me all of the jobs available, and after I had looked up the details online, I told him it didn't sound like he wanted any of them.  Most of them were seabee stuff, and they are gone a lot and there is a ton of manual labor involved. 
But then Jake happened to ask if a CTT (cryptologist technician) was available.  They didn't know so they told him they would email to find out.  That is the job Jake wanted in the beginning.  It deals with intelligence, which is what he has always had an interest in, and computers, which he is really good at. 
Turns out, they did have a CTT spot!  So on Wednesday, Jake and I went in, asked all of our last minute questions, filled out the security questions (he will have top-secret clearance which is something he was really excited about), and signed the contract!
He is now officially a CTT.  Their schooling (I know he just did almost a year of schooling but that was for FC and he will have to start his schooling all over for CTT but I guess that's just that much longer that he won't be deployed) is in Pensacola, Florida.  We don't know for sure, but it looks like his school will start around the middle of January (possibly on my birthday, which will be 2 years in a row he will have missed it) but it is only 8 weeks long.  We think.  No one seems for sure able to tell us just how long it is.  Oh well.  For now, the plan is for Jaden and I to go down there as soon as we can after Jake leaves and find a temporary apartment and enjoy the good weather! 

And by the way, have you noticed how many parenthesis I have used (kind of annoying, huh!)?