Congratulations, you live... (where?!)

So as I have learned should be expected, the joyous military has changed things up on us yet again. This, not so drastic as "You'll likely be living in your current region. No wait... make that Asia.." but while my dears was expecting to get a chance to rank preferences within Korea and be able to enter that I had a job and hopefully influence the placement, instead others in the country have their placement without entering preferences and we have naught. This is likely because that getting married thing delays his paperwork, and by triangulating where others are and the logic that's been heard 'round the water cooler, we are able to cobble together a few possibilities that might emerge in the next week or so. It has been thus for every move and assignment the hubs has had so far -- thinking one thing, planning accordingly, then SURPRISE!, something different-- and all signs point to the fact that this is just the way it is.

I'm pretty amazed that such a huge and largely effective organization manages to confuse fairly smart folks on a regular basis by being either mysterious or straight up silent on such trivial things as, say, moving your life for the next few years. I'm sometimes even more amazed that the servicefolk and their others/families get used to it and don't seem to be all that perturbed or worried about it. I do not mean to imply that it's a cruel scheme to keep the good folks serving in fear, confusion or anything else. But somehow, the expected can never be expected, even when you're something like a lawyer. A testament to either the patriotism, the benefits or both. I suppose building an information system to keep people abreast might seem unnecessary when the current system seems to work, but if I had my druthers, a leg up and some spare time...

Vocab of the day:
Korean: 여행 = travel
Military: PCS= Permanent Change of Station (move)