Army Post Road

     Oh the joys of moving around Fort Riley just because the Army says so. The new quarters they’ve moved us into don’t have any cable tv, telephone, or internet at all. Our only connection to the outside world while we’re in our buildings are our cell phones.
     The buildings they’ve moved us into are so new (and so unknown to just about everyone on post) that the government hadn’t even begun in earnest discussions with the cable company (Charter Communications) and the phone company (Sprint) about extending their services to our portion of the post. Now, the town of Ogden, which is only about one mile or so from our buildings, has all these services from different companies (Cox Cable and AT&T respectively) and the people of Ogden are smitten as kittens about all of it (other than they live in Ogden, Kansas). Now, just because we live in the warm and comforting buesome of the security of the confines of a federal military reservation, we have to wait until the government authorizes Charter to extend their service from the rest of post out to our area (atleast 6 miles from the next housing area) and no one can tell us conclusively whether the physical connections are there and they just have to be authorized by the military to flick on the switch or whether they actually have to build out to the area.
     All this is on top of the frustration of having to continue to live on post. The people in our unit who live in the hotels in Junction City get paid additional money because they live there. The people in our unit who live on post have to pay additional money because we live there. Those soldiers who live off post: higher ranking and thus get paid more. Those soldiers who live on post: lower ranking and thus get paid less.
     The topic is a little too frustrating for me to go on about any more at the moment. I’ll let you know more once the government has finally afforded me the opportunity to pay for internet again.