Pre-validation, and wtfuckery

So, before we came out here we had to fill out a spreadsheet for First Army detailing all the training that we'd done. They built a memo from it, I looked over it, the CO looked over it, we agreed it was fine. We got here, and the first day we have to sign the memo and turn it over to them so they can build a training schedule. Unfortunately, somewhere between now and then it somehow lost at least one training event, and we made the mistake of not reviewing it completely. After a fight with a whiny light colonel two days later (that being the time they took to build the goddamn training schedule), we managed to get the requirements for that event knocked down to just the 5 people who hadn't completed it with us at home station. The schedule showed that event taking place yesterday evening.

Yesterday afternoon, we learned that every single one of us would have to attend. Shortly thereafter, we learned the same thing about the 3-day counter-IED training that the majority of us had done twice already, because they incorporated a 15-minute class and a 30-minute class on two of the tasks we missed. The entire remaining duration will be filled with counter-IED training. For a non-combat deployment.