Final day of driving went well – but Ft Bliss was gonna
cause trouble for us. We were on the
housing list since May BUT they had us on the wrong list, even though Hubby
called 2x to correct it SO on Thurs the 11th when we called from Odessa (one
day out from Ft Bliss) a helpful person told spouse, "there is no housing
left, you have to find a place off post
- the wait is 4-6 months". Being a man he hung up, claiming there was
nothing more he could do. Worried about the fall out from me, he didn't tell me
until midday. I was upset, and called
back (Fri morning) asking to speak with the person in charge of SGM Academy
(USASMA) housing - of course I got to leave a voice mail. To her credit the manager
called me back that afternoon. I asked how the military expects me to find my
own housing for a 10 month program, and why if I was on the list since May I
didn't get housing? Magically a unit appeared - then she said, “so you will
take it?” (it was a different housing area and 'just across the street' from
where we were supposed to go - - um, no, I won't take it without seeing it,
when can we meet Sat? Oh, we don't work Sat. So we have hotel reservations
through Tue, at the on Post lodging. We drove past the tiny house in a
neighborhood of young families with infants, on the other side of an 8 lane highway
from where we were supposed to be - UM NO.
On Monday, I went in
alone and we discussed how it is their fault - but I haven't heard from you,
she says. Are you telling me it is my job to harass you until I get housing?
Well no, Around and around we went, then she realized - I have 7 people who
were issued housing but have not accepted or returned my calls I will call them
again and see if you can have one of these units. 20 minutes later we had
housing in our area, 300 sq feet more than the other, good but it is one of the
old units. I am happy it is in the housing area with the other USASMA families
so we are all in the same boat. Now with an address we call for our house hold
goods to get delivered, and they tell him, “I will have to call you back, but I
can guarantee it won’t happen tomorrow.” Well this attitude made spouse mad, we
aren’t crazy, we expected it to take about a week to get us in the schedule – I don’t
understand why everyone here is angry, and not interested in helping. The next
day transportation calls back to tell us it will take 3 weeks to delivery our
stuff, it is here in storage, but they don’t have enough trucks or crews. Once
again, the students know they are coming almost a year in advance – so why don’t
you hire 2-3 temporary crews for the busy months when they arrive. BUT WAIT it
gets better – we decide we really don’t want to sleep on air mattresses for 3
weeks and we try to extend, they said nope. I can’t blame them we gave a check
out date and they took another reservation.
At ACS, Army Community Service, we went to the lending closet and got a Rubbermaid
tote full of kitchen stuff, 2 air mattresses, and 2 sleeping mats. We had some
blankets and 3 towels, lined up cable to get hooked up – no TV but we have
computers.
We survived the 3 weeks, and now have our stuff. Next time
more about the really cool city of El Paso.
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