Josh is currently up for new orders. He has a 9 month window to pick before he had to transfer. He is now in his window and applied for new orders a few weeks ago. These orders we both really wanted for him. It would be closer to home and no sea duty until 2010 which is when he'd be transfering so possibly no cruises for another 3 years. We have to stay where we are because of the drop in the housing market we will loss way to much on the house and won't break even. He found out yesterday that he did not get them. He's been promised by several people that he is going to this command but we both feel like we shouldn't take their word for it until we see the actual orders on paper. So he found another set of sea duty orders which would be at the base closer to us and we have a friend their now. He will probably apply for those but we have to wait another 3-4 weeks before we know anything. It's all frusterating and scary because we just don't know if he will get them. We really don't want to move right now. Not to mention we should be hearing if he passed the chief's exam soon. He he makes chief this year this could also effect his orders but we won't know anything until August so even if he picks orders and gets them it's possible that he won't be able to go to that command unless they will find him another billit to fill for a chief. This is were faith and prayer comes into play big time. I just don't have much patience so it's becoming very stressful for me. Josh is OCD about it ends up driving me nuts with the worry and pessimesitc (sp) additude he has sometimes. I'll let you all know when we hear back on these orders. Keep your fingers crossed for him and some prayers wouldn't hurt either.