O-M-G FRG

I am ONE week away from handing the leadership of the FRG to the command of my husband's unit! I have "done this, been there" for 3 1/2 year and I am OVER IT! A year ago I actually resigned  at the same time command was changing hands - only to give in at the last moment at the request of the old and new command (who told me it was not appropriate for his wife to be part of the FRG....really??) for another trip around the sun. Well, that trip is over and I am out-of-there! Our unit is small (only E-5 and above) - top heavy with officers; 98% of the spouses have already paid their dues and have taken the vaccine that makes them immune to any form of FRG involvement....which makes it difficult to get anything done in the FRG planning of events.

Recently the FRG was going to hold its annual (fundraiser) Yard Sale. This sale typically brings in the funds to pay for Family Day and holiday events for the unit and families. Instead of having donations coming out of the armory doors as in previous years, this year we got 2 little boxes. Welp, no support from the unit or families meant no yard sale, no funds. Instead of taking it personally I brushed of any ego trip I started down and said "F" - it! Family Day will go on next weekend as planned... when it's over the FRG account will sport a BIG goose-egg "0". I will happily turn over everything I have for the FRG to the unit commander and take the lead of all of the other spouses by getting my own immunization shot and support my husband from the comfort of my home or anywhere else I choose to be.

The FRG is a Commander's program that is required from the State. Our Commander hasn't displayed the support needed to keep the FRG moving forward. When a the leadership doesn't care the unit won't care. Such is life and such is the way it is.

So...I'm hanging it up and walking away - it actually makes me giddy!

Do I feel guilty that the FRG will be drifting in the wind until someone steps up?

Nope!