I dont know what to do.

BAH is 900 bucks but... he is being put out of the military for having high blood pressure, being over weight and for being an indevisual who thinks for him self.

so we wont get BAH. the most that he is going to get is a small check from the army saying "thanks" so that wont cover alot.

I do however have a trick left up my sleave. The one place we didnt contact for the loan was the bank that my husband got his truck loan from. they have a Morgage (sp?) department. so I'm calling some time today to see what happens. That is my last chance to do good for myself, my family/pending family (I might be having a baby) and my pets. (who are family any way)

I wont give up just yet but things still look grim.

Is he getting an MEB? A medical discharge? If so, he should be getting a severance check, which is base pay x 2 x how many years he served.

he is going through a med board as we speak but all we might be getting is severance pay from this. he has been in 10 years. his chain of comant has it in for him. I have been fighting with his 1st. Sgt. and Comander over how the SSgt.s are treating my husband and the abuse they have been giving him (I got everything on audio tape and they still wont believe that it is real) I have delt with this 2 other times. With my mother and my god father.

I have contacted the Chaplin about this but I'm waiting for a call back.

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he is going through a med board as we speak but all we might be getting is severance pay from this. he has been in 10 years. his chain of comant has it in for him. I have been fighting with his 1st. Sgt. and Comander over how the SSgt.s are treating my husband and the abuse they have been giving him (I got everything on audio tape and they still wont believe that it is real) I have delt with this 2 other times. With my mother and my god father.

I have contacted the Chaplin about this but I'm waiting for a call back.

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What rank is he? Severance should be pretty decent if he's been in 10 years. If he's at least an E-5, you should be getting a good amount if you look at the calculations above. And if an MEB finds him unfit, he gets an honorable discharge, like I did. From there you can apply to the VA for a home loan, they have good rates and will work with you.

Forget the Chaplin, they don't do crap. We tried that route when Lex was having issues with his NCOIC. You need to contact your husband's home state congressman and start a congressional, which is a congressperson's inquiry into the situation and will require an investigation by the command as well as a former evaluation of the situation sent back to the congressman. The chain of command HATES dealing with congressionals so just getting them involved usually makes them quit the BS and finally deal with crap. I had to start one during my MEB because of how long it was taking and how no one was getting anything done. It motivated them to finally start working on my paperwork and getting me the evaluations I needed.

he is an E-5. we are planing on contacting the congressmen. my mother is one of the head in the VA in AZ so she is looking in to stuff to to see what she can truly do for us.

Pete dosent want to "ruffel any more feathers" over this but he is going to have to.

There is no problem with the med board. he went in for his first Phase of it last week and is doing the 2nd phase tomorrow. this is going VERY VERY fast compared to the 3 years it took for my mother.

Wow, that is fast. Mine took 6 months.

Hopefully the VA can pull through for you, and hopefully all goes well with his MEB. Keep me posted on what happens, I will help in any way that I can.

no problem. can do. I plan on keeping every one posted about this. I might need every ones suport and encuragement for this. (along with homes for my babies)

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Well, I would definately suggest getting a stable, fulltime job of your own. Especially with a spouse that is not in a steady career, women need to have jobs of their own these days to give themselves some sense of stability if anything should go wrong. I worked for years at a crappy parttime miinmal-wage dump, and we were struggling as he was pulling more of the financial burden. I have no college education.. I took a job in collections, which I do to this day. Fulltime, benefits, bonus checks (don't rely solely on those!) We thus could afford a house and mortgage, but we like where we are renting from now and extended credit into other things (atv, my car, a few credit cards.) His construction business is doing well, but there were months that we got by on my fulltime pay, and if i were still at the grocery store, we would have went into a tailspin financially.
You don't have to settle for life in a slum.

I was thinking though.. there are many apartments out there that don't care if you have reptiles. If I were renting, I would rather rent to a herp keeper than someone who had a dog or cat. It is all about finding the right landlord; it can be done, we found a landlord that lets us have everything now from the horses to the snakes, and rats.

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I was thinking though.. there are many apartments out there that don't care if you have reptiles. If I were renting, I would rather rent to a herp keeper than someone who had a dog or cat. It is all about finding the right landlord; it can be done, we found a landlord that lets us have everything now from the horses to the snakes, and rats.

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That's a rarity. When we moved to Texas then when we moved back up here to Wisconsin, absolutely no one would allow reptiles...hell, they wouldn't even allow more than 2 cats. We checked out somewhere between 30-40 apartment complexes, and no one would allow ball pythons. Even the house we rented in Texas wouldn't allow them without charging a $150 pet fee per snake.