Happy Is The Day A Sailor Gets His Pay

WOOOHOOOO!!!!! All that back pay that accrued while PSD was trying to un-dick the mess they made of my pay accounts has finally hit. What ya know, we're solvent (for a day or two), who woulda thunk it? I could get used to getting that much in my pay check twice a month. After all, I do like money. If I had more of it I would role around in it naked. Can't wait to see my LES (Leave and Earning Statement) 'cause the amount owed and the amount paid probably don't agree. There is always another windmill to tilt. Now, if I can just get the system to poop out those two outstanding travel claims, I just might be able to make my two Boys tuition payment (I hope, I hope, I hope). In fact, keeping the kids in the school of our choice, as opposed to the government operated school of "their" choice is one of the major reasons I agreed to come out to this African resort paradise. When you rack and stack up all the special pays: area pay, hostile fire/imminent danger pay, combat zone tax exclusion, partial per diem, and the lack anything to spend my disposable cash on, the extra cash pretty much should cover their tuition till the end of the school year. All bets are off next year though. After all, there are only so many wars available to finance my little ones education.

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD