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re: What motivated you to join the military?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:22 am to GeauxxxTigers23
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:22 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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I was give 10 days notice for my first deployment
Reserves has it's ups and downs, yes you do deploy sometimes with short notice and for a year, but you get to come back to your hometown or wherever you choose to live for long periods of time.
On the other hand, when I come back from deployment I get 10 days to visit my family. And it's back to work as usual wherever I'm stationed. I do the same thing at home as I would on deployment.
This post was edited on 5/27/14 at 11:24 am
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:23 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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They still put their lives on hold to serve their community. Pretty noble work if you ask me
So does the Entergy guy...He your hero..? or is he just doing a job that he was hired to do...
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:25 am to GrammarKnotsi
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I don't count that as being deployed..
What about Katrina, brah?
Activated from August 29 to December 31, 2005.
Well, even if you don't, I count it.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:25 am to GrammarKnotsi
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Yes...I don't agree when they bitch about it because they expected to never have to be deployed...Why else would they join the guard..
You said it wasn't true, but consider that as being deployed?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:26 am to ByteMe
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You said it wasn't true, but consider that as being deployed?
Guard and Reserve are different..
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:26 am to GrammarKnotsi
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So does the Entergy guy...He your hero..? or is he just doing a job that he was hired to do...
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:27 am to ASTL
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but if you haven't stepped into a hot zone and done some combat, or worked in a hot combat zone, then sit the frick down and hush.
But you STILL don't get it. Someone has to do whatever the people in safe areas do in order to support those on the front lines. Someone has to be the deterring force. Most of those someones are working day to day never knowing when they will receive orders into the combat zone. AND, to the best of my knowledge, the first job all of us were trained in, the most important, was to KILL PEOPLE. If all else fails we all know in the back of our minds that we will pick up a weapon and enter the "hot combat zone". If you did serve you should "sit the frick down and hush" because you have never learned what it is all about.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:28 am to Ace Midnight
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What about Katrina, brah?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:28 am to GrammarKnotsi
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Guard and Reserve are different..
One is State, the other is Federal. Other than that, what is different?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:29 am to GrammarKnotsi
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I feel this way about reserves/MOST guard members
Do you have any idea as just how many of these units were called up and went over there in the last 10 years?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:33 am to Redbone
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Do you have any idea as just how many of these units were called up and went over there in the last 10 years?
I acknowledge this...My issue is with the guy that "deploys" for Katrina..
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:36 am to GrammarKnotsi
being in the military is different than having a civilian job....i don't care if you spend your entire enlistment behind a desk filing papers.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:38 am to GrammarKnotsi
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I acknowledge this...My issue is with the guy that "deploys" for Katrina..
A lot of the guys who "deployed" for Katrina had it 10X worse than anyone on a boat ever did. Some of those guys were shoveling 2 week old corpses out of hospitals and nursing homes.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:42 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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A lot of the guys who "deployed" for Katrina had it 10X worse than anyone on a boat ever did. Some of those guys were shoveling 2 week old corpses out of hospitals and nursing homes.
And got shot at...
And had to ride out the storm, involuntarily...
And were at the Superdome with no weapons and no ammunition for several days...
And having to live in conditions as bad as any third world country...
(I hope I've made my point.)
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:42 am to GrammarKnotsi
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GrammarKnotsi - Right..So one year out of their nine year enlistment....Must suck...
You are one bitter bastard!!!
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:43 am to Choctaw
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being in the military is different than having a civilian job....i don't care if you spend your entire enlistment behind a desk filing papers.
That was my old arse NCOIC's job before he went to Iraq and was attached to an army protection team as their full time comm guy
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:46 am to Ace Midnight
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Ace Midnight
and signed up to do that kind of crap..What did they expect signing up for the guard..
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:47 am to ASTL
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Look I am all for our troops and support...but if you haven't stepped into a hot zone and done some combat, or worked in a hot combat zone, then sit the frick down and hush.
Six week of regular ole gi boot camp and then sitting state side isn't a brave task. So I don't want to hear it.
I have two friends who joined. One is combat in Afghanistan now. The other does training and color guard stuff state side. I worry about one. Don't worry about the other.
Not sure why you aimed that at me, and talking to me like you know me. But I think you forget that Signal is one of the intricate parts of the puzzle in combat, which I have been to. So frick off
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:48 am to Redbone
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You are one bitter bastard!!!
Yes..I hate seeing reservists with ESWS pins, asking them what ship they got it on, and they've never even seen a real ship...They just took a test..
Posted on 5/27/14 at 11:48 am to Rebman601
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I've discussed this before, but the military is nothing more than welfare for those that are either too dumb for school and or too dumb for a real job. They don't know shite about "sacrifice". Maybe they should thank me for paying their bills. fricking leaches
You sound really smart, pussy.
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