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More than a year ago my then fiance, and now wife, broke up. I was left with a lease and at the time I was in college and had a mediocre job. Money was tight. I couldn't afford my house on my own income so my mother offered to move in and split rent. Come to find out she hadn't been paying rent where she lived and was being evicted so this actually worked well for her although she had led me to believe that she was doing this to help me out. I got back together with my girl who is now my wife a few months later and obviously we live together. I have and excellent job now and don't even need my wife's income for anything. However, my mother hasn't left. She lived with my brother and his wife for a few years before they finally had to move away and tell her that she couldn't move into the new house with them. She is well aware that my wife and I do not like her living here and my mother and I were NEVER close anyway. She has a low income job and TERRIBLE credit. I would feel bad if I told her to leave and she could not get a place due to credit and finances but she is making my marriage and life extraordinarily stressfull. My wife and I have no privacy as it is and we have two kids and another on the way. My mom gossips to the rest of the family about everything and even completely lies about random things, such as she had to walk to and from work when her vehicle was being repaired. In reality I was getting up early every day to give her a ride and my wife picked her up.I isolate myself from the rest of my family except one brother because I am tired of dealing with the drama her lies and half-truths create. She almost ruined my brothers marriage too because her gossip and rumors took a huge toll after a while. She is worse than a child about many things and relies on family and friends for financial support to fix her immature mistakes. I really can't stand my mother. Should I tell her to leave and not worry about where she will go or is this too cruel?

I am prior service AF. I am currently working on getting back into the AF under a retrain request for which I would accept pararescue, CCT, or tac-p. I have been working on my package with my recruiter for six months, getting documents together, one waiver which was approved, and a couple of other things. My package is up the chain of command for approval. Thus far, two of the four approving authorities have signed off on my package and now I am waiting for the other two. However if one of them denies it I have decided I am going into the Army. I was an E-4 when I got out of the AF. I don't know my ASVAB line scores but I recently re-took the test for my AF package and scored in the 83rd percentile. My question is: Can I enlist into the Army as EOD since I have the time in federal service and rank that is required? I'm confused by the web site I looked at for information because it appears that you must have the pre-req's and then send a request for retrain and I know that there are certain fields that one cannot directly enlist to, but must be in the service before applying. Does anyone know if this is a field I can enlist in at MEPS? Thanks for any answers.