This might be a more r/Military post, but I think this community will be much more open minded about my opinion.
I'll start off by saying I'm the first generation in my family to join the military and I'm certified CF for life. I have thoroughly appreciated my time in the Army and, as most people know, this career comes with many benefits in America. Unfortunately, these benefits (free healthcare for your children, free housing with more rooms per child, ability to transfer your college tuition assistance to children, etc.) attract those with children, especially parents who have children very early in life, including teen parents. Every child a military personnel has makes them that much less useful to the military. For starters, their families use up vastly more of the tax payers dollars. I'm not against them having free health free, I think at a minimum all minors should have free health care. I'm talking about all the family retreats and trips the military offers. There are frequent, all expenses paid vacations for military families that include hotels, transportation, meals, and activities. Moving an entire family to a new duty station overseas or even across country uses up tens of thousands of government dollars.
Now for the work part. Each child a service member has eats into their work time and is mostly unstoppable by there unit's commander. All the crotch goblins have doctors/dentist/psychiatrist appointments that soldiers thoroughly milk the shit out of. Some soldiers will miss almost a full day of work for parent/teacher meetings. A few soldiers will miss nearly half of the whole work week for their children's appointments. Parents have a full day off on the first day of school each year. If a child has so much as even a slight "tummy ache" that soldier is gone all day. Afternoon sports game? soldier never comes back after lunch. Child has minor surgery? Soldier gets several days off. All of this will happen even if the soldier's spouse doesn't work! The amount of work for the unit remains the same. Guess who gets to pick up all the extra work load? All the CF soldiers, of course.
I've always thought that the military is the wrong career to even have a child in the first place. We move to anywhere around the world every few years. We go on 9 to 15 month deployments. We go on month long field exercises. I've known people in the service who have a child that's 6 and they have lived in a different country from their k
... keep reading on reddit ➡Troops, what is your opinion on Trump potentially pardoning those service members that have been convicted of crimes? Personally, I believe it's a bad thing. It sends the wrong message and only promotes discord among the ranks, not to mention within the international community, it promotes an image of hypocrisy. Ultimately, I believe it undermines our values and is a dangerous PR stunt aimed to acquiesce ultra-conservatives. What say you?
I don't mean to disrespect him and his family. The 11th yr anniversary of his death is coming up including his birthday. I may delete this if it upsets anybody.
I also don't want to affect the physical health of him/her speaking about my service and this..
What I can't understand is that in a very wealthy church that requires so much time and energy of faithful members, why the fuck can't they do one small thing to make members lives a little better when given the chance.
It is not happening in my family but every time we try coming up with a plan this is the thing he gets hung up on and we have a very unproductive conversation. Is he right?
ETA: He's just sent me this: https://www4.abs.gov.au/1800x/1800x.nsf/home/1800x ... so if you can work from home you now should. Hopefully this magic word will become the new technicality on our house!
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My mother has dementia and is in a care facility. I have Power of Attorney and am trying to get her accounts in order now that she is unable to. Specifically, she has a cell phone contract that needs to be cancelled because she is incapable of using it. When I spoke to the company they requested that I fax them the power of attorney but then later said they do not accept it and only my mother can cancel the account. The agent told me that because my mother has dementia and is unable to cancel it herself the only thing that can be done is to keep paying the bill until she dies.
My mother is in good health even though she has severe dementia. She may live for years. It doesn't seem reasonable for her to pay this bill that she can't even benefit from forever. There has to be some way to end this contract but they give me no options. What can I do if my Power of Attorney is not good enough for them?
