There really isn't much of a chance for me to be stationed overseas again while I'm in the Navy. We hoped to get back to Europe for our next tour, but there just wasn't anything open. There was an opening in Japan, but it was at a location that was somewhat remote and after conferring with some mentors, they didn't think it would be good from a professional development standpoint. If everything goes as planned, we'll move to Maryland for the last five years of my Navy career.
The reason that I went with a LCBOLL rating of 45% is because of the opportunities in the civilian sector of my job field. There are job openings overseas, and they usually have trouble filling them. Most of my colleagues that I've asked about it don't want to uproot family, primarily kids, to go overseas somewhere. I've even known a few people that have implied that it is somehow unpatriotic to want to live overseas. Okay, whatever.
But with no kids to worry about putting through a potentially difficult transition, it would be fairly simple for us. It depends a lot on the employment opportunities available when I retire from the Navy, but I can see us working and living, at least for a time, somewhere like Germany. Jennifer is very comfortable living overseas, and so am I, so it's a possibility.
We've gone so far as to consider retiring overseas, or even doing missionary work - my military retirement would cover most of the monetary support that most missionaries have to raise before they make it overseas. I don't have odds on that yet.
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