Reckon' It's Time To Invade The North Again

Arrggghhhhh! The evil Detailers have finally been heard from. First they deny my measly six month extension so my darling Chaos, Mayhem and Entropy can finish out the school year and not have to move during the holiday season. The lame excuse for denying the extension was that the need for Afloat Manning precluded granting an extension at my present station. That simply held no water 'cause my current job will not be back filled when I leave and there were no Afloat jobs available in my detailing window. I even made it easy for them because I volunteered to go overseas. I have received no response from all my attempts at communication during the last three weeks and today I finally reached him. He hemmed and hawed and then finally told me that he can't detail me because I wear Gold Dolphins (Alarm bells start going off at this point and that cold clammy chill starts to worked its way down my spine!). So I tentively ask what my Dolphins have to do with it? The detailer tells me that they have a critical need for submarine qualified logisticians at the moment and that I need to call another detailer. I immediately called the new detailers and she greeted me with a hearty "Oh, yes! You are on my list!" It is never, but never a good thing when a detailer has you "on their list". She then informs me that SUBLANT needs chops in Groton CT and they need them now. I explain that my PRD is not until the end of the year and it would be really painful for me to move my family quickly. It is a laughable argument because detailers will do what ever they damn well please with you when they damn well please. After all you are wearing the Big Blue's brand and if they wanted you have a family they would have issued you one in your sea bag. She makes it painfully clear that my only choices are Rotten Groton sooner or soonest. My oldest boy actually cried when he found out. He said "Please, don't make me go to yankee land!" My Bride and I tried to reason with him and explain that all Northerners aren't inherently evil and to that he just took a belligerent stance, crossed his arms, and through his pout he declared "I ain't moving to Yankee land!" I really know how he feels, when were were last in Groton, when I was going through Sub School, I thought the country side was spectacular but as a Texan and un-reconstructed Southron I found I had little common ground or patience with the indigenous population. For the most part they seemed to all be pretty damn whack! (No offense meant to any northerners. I have many dear friends who are from the north. The individual yankee is often an outstanding human being but in groups they can prove to be problematic) You had better believe I will be flying the the Lone Star Flag of the Republic and the Bonnie Blue Flag every damn day we are forced to live up north. It ain't too bad though, at least I will be able to draw sub pay again.

TO THE TYRANT NEVER YIELD