To Promote or Not to Promote

I'm getting nervous. Last year we found out the bad news on July 22, so based on that we should find out the results of Jack's promotion board any day. We are pretty sure he won't get promoted, but I still find it so hard to believe I sometimes convince myself that he will. I even had a dream last night that he was promoted!

Just to give you a quick back story... (I've never posted a link like this, so here's to trying)

There are good points and bad points to being promoted and not, and I've already decided that I'll probably cry either way.

Good points to being promoted:

1. A nice raise.

2. The guarantee that we can retire.

3. We really do love the military life

Bad points to being promoted:

1. Jack has to stay in Afghanistan the whole year (until June 2011).

Good points to NOT being promoted:

1. He (supposedly) gets to come home early.

- He current commanding officer (who is an Air Force guy) said he is not opposed to sending him home immediately. However, that is Air Force. Who knows what the Navy will say!?

2. We get a very nice severance package.

3. Jack will be home more often and we can find a place to settle as a family.

Bad points to NOT being promoted:

1. We can't retire.

2. The economy sucks.

3. We lose our awesome health insurance.

Stay tuned for the BIG news...