Wisconsin? Seriously?!

Dear Dowerhouse Road USAR Drill Center,
Could you be any less considerate of the family members and situations of your soldiers? Maybe get a more personable UA to deal with the civilian aspect of coordinating schedules? Just a thought, 'cause you guys suck at this crap. Your current level of skill concerning civilian relations is worse than those of my 21 month old son, and he throws tantrums and hits and screams. He does a MUCH better job of conveying the reasons for his frustrations, and he hasn't learned how to talk yet. That's saying something serious, in my opinion. You get frustrated because people don't do things exactly the way you've decided that they should, and you enroll them in a class timed out PERFECTLY to tear them away from their little kids for a holiday they've never spent together - hell, they've never even spent it in the same country, time zone, state. This will make two years in a row that The Husband hasn't been able to take Boogaloo out to go trick-or-treating, and the source tracks back to you and your motives; impure as they are now. I know that one frustrated wife - or even the equivalent to an entire base-full of angry wives - makes no difference to you, but don't forget their support. Those wives; you know, the ones who're frustrated by your inconsideration; are the ones keeping your soldiers in good enough condition and good enough spirits to do as you're telling them to. Piss off that support system, and you may find yourself lacking quite seriously in new recruits. You, locally, and the federal government in charge of the whole military would all do well to keep that in consideration.

Sincerely,
A Military-created Single Mommy

P.S. - Your U.A. isn't the problem, the chain of command is; so I owe her - the U.A. - a major apology for my accusation before.