The FRG Blues

Dear FRG,
I really don't mind going to your meetings. They tend to provide me with useful information such as leave dates and activities. I appreciate that you are trying to help me.  That being said, your guest speakers as of late are absolutely killing me.

Three months ago, we had the woman who talked about the mechanic shop and job postings for an hour. I fell asleep.  Last meeting, you spent two hours telling me about NTC and preparing me for tonight's meeting. Tonight? Tonight there was a woman from the casualties office (I think) showing me flow charts of the paperwork process if something happens to my husband.

I learned absolutely nothing from this woman. I already know that if Nate is injured in combat that I'll get a phone call from his commander. I already know what it means if two men in Class As show up on my doorstep. And yes, it's my worst nightmare, thankyouverymuch.

I don't need to know the qualifications of the men in Class As. I know enough to say that there is no amount of money that you could pay me to deliver their messages. Bless them. That must be the hardest job in the military.

I don't care about the paperwork process of notifying me of these things. If I have to deal with them, I'm not going to stop my tears to ask "did S1 remember to fill out the DA form 2977???" Like it's going to make a bit of difference to me in my pain...

In the future, this woman needs to realize that she's speaking to people facing the very real possibility of losing the person who is sitting beside them. We don't care about her power point...talk to us like we are people. We're scared. Acknowledge that. Then give us the information we need, and only that information. I don't understand your acronyms, and I'm not positive you do either, so stop using them! Talk to us like we are real, and we might listen.

Other than that, the rest of the meeting was great....all five minutes of it. I learned more in that 5 minutes than I did the entire time that chick was blathering.

Sincerely,


***This is more negative than my normal posts, but it was late and I was frustrated. Most of my experiences with the Army are very positive, but this woman was working my nerves and I needed to vent about it. Thanks. :)