My roommate of less than two months (He had the room to himself while I was in Basra.) just left. He is Air Force, and his "tour" was four months long. I will have the room to myself for only a few days at best. Living space is at a premium now, so the housing authority wont let the room sit idle for long. My roommate couldn't just not tell them he was leaving like I did, since he wont be coming back.
On the incoming side, C9 had around ten new arrivals start in processing today. They are replacing a few people who are leaving. All the same nonsense that happened to my group happened to them. They are arriving just as I and a few others are leaving early. Clearly there is very little planning involved is staffing decisions. Some of that has to do with the way things work here. In military slang, they are called drug deals, under the counter trading of favors, in this case involving duty assignments, that never get back to the human resource planners. My time in Basra was one of these. I was loaned to them temporarily, because it takes less time than vetting a new billet through resource planners, but that means that the job I was doing will never be officially acknowledged. It will always be filled by begging, borrowing or stealing a body from someone else.
Im getting short now. In a month or so, I will be home and a civilian again. "That's not right" is already becoming "Its someone elses problem."
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