Steezus... you're an idiot. Only you would come up with something so obnoxious

LOL
Enchanter... now you know that I have had the tendancy to agree with you on many topics, but, in a friendly way of course, I have to say that you are a little "off base." (no pun intended) **Unbiting my tongue, just for a moment... see first post"***
If a "child" graduates at say 18, (or even 19 due to birthday issue late starting) assuming that they start college right away that puts them at 21 with
if lucky an associates degree, but maybe less. At 23 it is possible but unlikely that they could have a bachelor's degree depending on availability to fund a full course load every semester, or having the GI Bill passed down etc.
But say that "child" is now going for a Master's Degree. They have focused fully on their education, probably haven't had a job over here, either for lack of time due to school... or lack of ability due to sparse job openings. So you take a 21 or 23 year old with no work experience and boot them out of the house and to the States, on their own, with nobody to even lean on for support, that especially in today's economy and the competition for jobs even at freakin McDonalds will likely be unemployed.... and say.. "sorry for ya.. you're now a burden.. goodbye."
Plus.. has anybody even thought of the fact: That if one were in the States, living off base (probably because there's none even available on base where there is a waiting list of over 600 people... (which is not abnormal... we were #604 at our last base so we bought a house) they would still be receiving government BAH to pay their mortgage (or rent..), but only enough to live in the ghettoist (not a word, I know) part of town just outside the base fence, right next to the projects...that if you want to live in a safe neighborhood you have to put $500 - %1000 of your regular paycheck with the BAH to make the payment. (total runon sentence, sorry) Can the military tell that person, "oh.. you own your home but your child cannot live with you anymore, you have to kick them out?" No, of course they can't. But here, they pull all sorts of stuff, losing SOFA, for instance and then even if they get a job on their own SOFA aren't allowed to live in a house with their parents, they pay two households to keep the child in Japan near his family. It's only because they are overseas and in base housing that they can enforce this. If someone here was living off base, they are entitled to BAH... non specific to what size house based on the number of dependents but only based on a ceiling for BAH. They have no right to tell someone that their child can't live there either. They would be paying the same amount regardless of how many people live there.
Just on a side note... why is it that our children cannot remain our dependents, for whatever reason we might have, if we prove that we are still supporting them financially...while they attend college..... but there are full blown DEPENDENT mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, inlaws, etc... that are not only allowed to live in base housing, but also get BX, Commissary, dependent preference on jobs on base, AND MEDICAL that our taxpayers are paying for. What makes it any different for us to keep our child who is going to college earning a degree so they will soon be able to support themselves for the rest of their lives... for say an extra TWO OR THREE years because they are financially dependent on us at the time, but the forementioned setup is most times in place for ten, fifteen, even twenty years. on the governments dime.
I had a friend when we were in Texas who's husband's mother was his dependent their entire marriage of over 20 years in the service. She got all the same benefits as the wife. She used to joke and say she earned her keep because she fixed home cooked Italian meals once a week for them. LOL But she also had a son who turned 21 (yeah, they had him before they got married) and was not enrolled in college so they cut off his medical, and military ID. Yet this guys mother got to keep all of hers for pretty much the guy's entire career.
I'm just saying, if it's good for one family member, it should be good for all families........... or no families.
