When Tyler had his braces put on he had to get special permission to stay in D.C until March 2012 because that is when he is supposed to get them taken off. The Air Force does all of his dental work because the Marine Corps doesn't have a dental program. He had to get permission from the orthodontist and his monitor saying that he was allowed to extend his stay in D.C until March 2012 (his 3 year mark in D.C will be in July). Well around the second week in May Tyler contacted his new monitor because the old one had left (the monitor is the guy that is in charge of sending Marines to different places around the world to live). He wanted to introduce himself and let him know that we were scheduled to PCS (Permanent Change of Duty Station) in March and wanted to talk to him about the possibility of certain places that he may send us. The monitor looked up his file and saw that Tyler's 3 year mark is in July and told him he needed to get his family ready to move because he was sending him somewhere else. Tyler told the guy his dental situation and the monitor told Tyler he needed to get his orthodontist to write a note stating that Tyler was his patient and that he needed to stay with the orthodontist until his braces came off in March. The orthodontist wasn't allowed to do that and told Tyler that because it wasn't a special case, he could see other military orthodontists anywhere in the world. Tyler reported that to his monitor and the monitor told him that since it wasn't a special case then he can see an orthodontist out in Okinawa, Japan. Tyler called me and told me that there was a huge possibility that we would be heading to Okinawa soon but didn't know any details. He went into work the next day and had web orders waiting for him stating that our next duty station will be Okinawa, Japan and that we were scheduled to report there in August. We were both in complete shock when we found out because that was in mid May..... meaning August was only 2.5 months away. Most people know about their PCS' months in advance so they have time to prepare for a move. I think that has been the most stressful part of this all is just not having a lot of time to get things in order that HAVE to be done. Lucky for me the family I work for is moving overseas in August too so they know what I am going through and have been very flexible with my schedule and letting me off to get things done. We are super excited about living overseas and we have both heard nothing but GREAT things about Okinawa. I have not heard one negative thing about it and that makes me so pumped to get over there.
We have got a TON of stuff to do before August. Our movers come and pick up our stuff on June 20, we have to be out of our apartment by June 30, we will be staying with a friend until we head to Texas (me July 7 and Ty July 8), and then we are planning on heading to Japan from Texas on or around August 1. We have had to sell most of our furniture because we have about 8,000 lbs of stuff and they are only allowing us 2,500 lbs soooo that has been fun trying to narrow it down to the things we absolutely need! Luckily since they don't allow you to move a ton of stuff they rent furniture out to people for their time spent living in Okinawa. I'm not too crazy about hand-me-down furniture but hey, I gotta deal with it because I have no choice. We also aren't allowed to take any cars with us therefore we needed to get rid of the 2 that we had. We sold our jeep to a dealership and are selling the other car to my parents. I know we are dealing with a bunch of stress right now but luckily it is all coming so quickly, we don't have much time to sit and think about things. We are just soooo ready to be there already and get all of this crap over with!
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