FifthTime’s a Charm.
So many, many moons ago I wrote a post about waiting to find out if I had been promoted followed by another post wherein I announced I had not been promoted and was somewhat bummed. Well, this past Thursday the Air Force announced the listing of the newest Technical Sergeants and yours truly was on it. Woohoo! As the list was announced while I was at al Udeid in Qatar, I was able to take my ration card to the MWR tent and celebrate with two of my three federally authorized Strongbow hard ciders. Yum.
P.S. – For those that don’t know, I’m not actually a Tech Sergeant (TSgt) yet, I still have to wait my turn to “sew on” my new stripe, that should happen this fall some time.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:58 am
Congratulations! Glad the board saw reason this time around. (And wouldn’t you love to have a piece of the gravel concession at Al Udeid?!?)
July 6th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
W00t!! Yeah you! To think, some people thought you’d have lost fingers by now…
Keep up the good work and I’m glad it was recognized this time. My Dad kept waiting for his promotion above Major, but he set a time limit and when the Air Force failed to show him they needed him more than his kids, he retired. Hopefully they know better now. (Yeah, comm and non comm are diff, but I’m just saying!)
July 21st, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Thanks guys!
Singndance: Heck yeah! That or the bottled water business. The Deids not too bad, better ammenities then what I’ve got right now, that’s for sure.
Stacey: Yeah, but we NCOs have a time limit too, although I’m pretty safe now, I can stay in up to 23 years…woohoo!