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When watching the news and realizing we could be heading back to war. I feel a sense of excitement and start to become eager to redeploy. I could choose to stay at home with my wife and beautiful daughter in our newly purchased home; but no I secretly want the military to say... SGT Jenkins back to Iraq you go. When will I feel enough is enough and it's the next mans turn?
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SGT (Join to see), I'm going to say this forcefully.
Your wife and daughter need you. They are your highest calling.
When Uncle Sam needs you, he will call.
I understand the siren's call of wanting to destroy villiany and evil where it lives, doing the job you were trained for.
Your time will come. Be ready for it when it does.
In the meantime, give your wife a hug, tell her you love her, and take her somewhere nice "just because". You may need to trade in some of that equity someday.
Your wife and daughter need you. They are your highest calling.
When Uncle Sam needs you, he will call.
I understand the siren's call of wanting to destroy villiany and evil where it lives, doing the job you were trained for.
Your time will come. Be ready for it when it does.
In the meantime, give your wife a hug, tell her you love her, and take her somewhere nice "just because". You may need to trade in some of that equity someday.
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When you are dead and buried. It is normal to feel that way. Don't read too much into it. Just don't try to replace the thrills of combat with dangerous acts trying to recreate the rush. You can never drink enough, fight enough, drive fast enough, or gamble enough to get that life or death feeling back. Give it time.
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SGT (Join to see) What you do is buy a bag of plastic Army men. Set them up like a company. You can be the commander. Tell them they are getting deployed. Set up a miniature SRP site, shipping container layout and load outs. Put them on an aircraft and off you go from one couch to your bed room. When they are boots on ground, start classes and briefings. Put them on a shinook and send them to their FOB. You might have to set one up by the way. When they hit ground have them rip for a week. After that, start key leader engagements. When they bed down for the night, the FOB will be mortared. They will need to react accordingly. After that send them on missions to go find ISIS. Now you will be on your make believe deployment.
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I love this idea, maybe it should be the sand box training for higher echelons instead of spending so much money on NTC and JRTC!!
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SSG (ret) William Martin
The tough part about this is that some of the plastic Army men won't leave the combat zone alive.
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