I promised a friend that I would ask the wise and generous people of Fluther if they might help with couple of problems her daughter, who is about 6 weeks into basic training with the Marines is having. Care to step up to the plate (see details)

Problem 1. My friend’s daughter has been denied a military deferment on her student loans because she is “in training” and military deferments are not provided to people in the military who are in training. Don’t even get me started on this one. I was thinking she should just go ahead and try to get a financial hardship defermentt rather than fight this one. It took me twelve years to pay back my student loans and your basic financial hardship deferment/ seemed pretty easy to get as I remember.

Problem 2. My friend is looking after her daughter’s dog while her daughter is in basic training and that is causing a lot of trouble and disrupting the balance of power in the existing dog household. i.e, her daughter’s dog is kind of of bitch. I saw an episode of King of the Hill that was about providing foster care for the pets/animals of people serving in the military but I do understand that that is just a television show and that characters are not even played by real people, they are animated but I am wondering if anyone knows of a real program in place for the military that might be able to provide foster care for my friend’s daughter’s dog. It would be what is best for all the dogs and all the people, I think.