I'm not a political activist

The hardest thing to get use to in the military is the lack of actual follow through and workmanship. The fact that you can be told one thing by one person and a whole different thing by another is at times scary. There is no real way to plan because you are never given the same information twice. When I think about the things the military can get away with when it comes to their soldiers and families I am always left amazed and most often confused. Whether its mistakes from deployments, to payments, to medical treatment, they are seemingly never ending. It is the fine print that is scary.
The military moves a family thousands of miles away and when they do this they don't arrange a home for you, they don't arrange a hotel, they don't even let people know you're coming. This is all left for you to do. It does not matter if you are a seasoned traveler or a person who's never been over their city line. You are left information less, with no one to call if something goes wrong in the night. What is worse is that for ten days and ten days only the military will pay for you to be in limbo. So if you get to your base and you go to the housing office and they say we have a house but it won't be ready for 12 days. Then those last two days will come out of your pocket. Here is my theory why:

We have grown to be such a large military with so many families from, so many different back grounds, from so many different place that we have become numbers in a statistics study. We are no longer individuals with individual needs. There isn't time or resources to care. This seems so very wrong to me.
Recently we ran into this problem with our on travel office. A Sgt. there cleared us for extra days in the hotel since our house on base was not going to be ready. Not enough time to get an apartment but over the ten day limit. This Sgt. told us that it had been cleared that we could stay in the hotel and that the military would cover it but when it was time to pay up we got a simple "Oh I never told you that." and that was the end of that. A thousand dollars out of our own pockets because there was a failure to communicate. A promise made and not followed through. A job done without knowing how to do it.
But we have been lucky and smart and have learned not to trust anything we are told and to cover our OWN asses and so we were okay. But we have been in the military for many years now. We are not fresh out of high school and still trusting to what our leaders tell us. We have learned be it the hard way.
It is inevitable the at the rate our country, our military, our government spends money it will run out. It is inevitable that at some point the money to support will not be there. It is inevitable that people, that whole families will slip through the cracks. Inevitable yes, but that doesn't make it okay and it certainly doesn't make it right.
The system needs to change. Accountability need to change. A more fluid and workable system needs to be in place and it needs to end this idea that we need to be SO secure that not even our men and women doing the job that they are suppose to be doing can do it correctly because not even they are privileged to the information. There is a fine line between a secured nation and a naive one. At the rate we are going I'm a little worried which one we will be.

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