Like I said in the last post we had just seen the doctor and turned our paperwork in. We took the papers to the special needs coordinator and she faxed them in. At the end up that week heard from a Colonel in Germany in charge of the program that the Doctor from Geilenkerchen still was going to deny the orders. She said that was her standard protocol for that area because of the Doctor situation. He then said that their had to be something we could do. Well, she told him if we were willing to waive using their medical facility and go on the economy for the boys medical then we could bring them. We would have to use the Tri Care Europe program. Well, we were going to have to do that anyway because of how far we are from the hospital . We just shook our heads because she was denying us being able to come over as a family and we were never going to be using her medical facility anyway! So Sheldon signed the papers and we we faxed them back and we had everything done by that Friday afternoon. On Monday morning we were told we were approved from the Germany side so we needed to hound the people here at Bolling to sign off on it then we could get our orders. Sheldon went to he special needs coordinator, she signed everything then gave him the paperwork to take to our outbound assignments guy to we could get our orders cut. He of coarse was not in that afternoon but working at a special assignment that day. We tried hard to get someone else to help, but no go. We were told that we could have the the next day, Tuesday and we would be good to go. We were also told that afternoon that we were still suppose to be there by the 15th of August! That would give us 2 1/2 weeks to get there:0 So we have 2 weeks really to get out of here, going overseas, to be in place by the 15th.
Tuesday morning rolls around and we are waiting for the call but haven't heard anything. Finally around 11 am, Sheldon goes down there and the guy's there, just hasn't done it yet:( SHeldon stresses to this airmen that we only have 2 weeks to take care of everything and we can't do any appointments until we have those orders. He stands over him while the kid protests that he doesn't have the clearance from our end when Sheldon shows him that paper and he gets that "dum" look like, oh, I guess that is the paperwork I need. He finally gives Sheldon his much needed papers and he's off. We scheduled TMO (the movers), housing (gave our notice of moving) and set up out times for our pre inspection and final out. I was able to get the pets their appointments for their health check for the flight over. We also turned in our port call paperwork to get our flight information. Not bad for half a days notice;)
We made some decision during this time of a couple hours too. We found a regulation that stated that they had to fly round trip any dependent that is a student in the states once every fiscal year! Since Jori was being fired on Friday, not anything due to her performance but just because of the economy, she would really have nothing to do for the next month and become an expensive sponge for a month or more. We decided that it would be best for us to take Jori with us:) She will stay with the boys at our bungalow park while Sheldon and I go to Germany for his in-processing. It won't be a major vacation for her, but at least she'll get to see the country side of the Netherlands and Germany a little before she comes out at Christmas. She can take back some candy for her friends and pictures! At least we get to see her. It would have been a whole year if we waited until the holidays and that was too long. Jori flies in late Tuesday night just as all the fun begins here. We hope if we work really hard she will get the chance to take in the sights here at the DC Mall too. It would be a shame not too.
Well, I know I have more write but I'll try to catch up when I can. I can't wait to start adding pictures to this blog. I need to do better with that, but right now at least keeping up with the writing will just have to be enough and once things settle down I will get to that.
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