Well....will keep this simple. Two of the greatest things that have happened, thus far in my life are getting married to my wonderful wife Ginger ( in Sept of 2010 ) and us getting our beautiful house and puppies in Shelton ( in Feb 2010 ). Some of the worst things that have happened...ugh. Here we go.
1. Voluntarily leaving The Home Depot in Jan 2011. I wasn't trying to get promoted before my most recent deployment....I wanted a daytime position so that I could spend more quality time with my new wife before I deployed for a year. Management did me no favor by not telling me why I didn't get the position to which I applied. That , in itself, is against the law. I gave the management of my store approximately a month ( Dec 15th 2010 - Jan 1st 2011 ) to attend to my requests. Needless to say, they made no attempt to rectify the situation and they lost a knowledgeable long term employee.
2. Finding out in the short span of 6 months, that the Fed. Gov't withheld my pay ( once in April 2011 ) and nearly again in August. The first was when Congress debated the Governments fiscal calendar for 2011, and narrowly passed the measure at the 11th hour. This impacted the pay for more than 1.5 million active and reserve soldiers. Believe me, and I am only one of them, that the prospect of not getting paid, having a house and wife was scary.
There have been many more good things and few more not so good, but believe me...the good are the best!!!
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