What’s the rarest assignment you had during your career? Was a good assignment because it was rare or bad because of that?

I knew a guy who had an assignment as the Army Liaison to the Film Industry. He was stationed in LA and served as the point person for movie producers and directors whenever they needed to rent tanks, helicopters, etc., from the military.

When I was a intel analyst and peon. I was the lowest ranked person of group of 8 that were deployed to support an SF analyst request.

As the military works, only 4 were needed. When the original submission was sent for 4 no one filled the mission role. So SOCCENT sent out the mission request again for 4, but failed to remove the original request. Then my USAR unit answered BOTH request for 4 each and send them EIGHT.

So I get there, and I'm the low man on the pole for 8 with only 4 being needed. They "could" send me home, but that would be harder than just sticking me in the sticks somewhere.

Back story, 4 of them went to 1st world conditions, and 4 of us (me in this group) went to AFG. The folks in a real country were told civilian office attire and had the offerings of the country to them. The rest of us were behind BAF fortifications at the flag poll.

Fast forward, once I get there the flag pole wants to pawn me off to somewhere else. So I get sent outside the wire to support an Alpha Team as an additional intel analyst. Now........ I'm being told I have to wear civilians and grow my beard out and basically look like a Black Water Op.

By the end of it, the remaining 3 at the flag pole got caught up in all that HQ nonsense, they also had to deal with an astronomical breach in TS/SCI protocols which ended up being part of our out processing brief when leaving country (you know, those stupid things you wonder what happened that someone is now briefing you not do to, well someone had to do it first, that was my unit).

Then, the other 4 in the first world conditions, there was a change of command that happened right when they got there, and well, now they all had to wear uniforms none of them brought. Off post adventures also came to an end. Furthermore, 3 of them got involved in an EO complaint that went all the way back to the states and I had to provide a deposition myself as part of the investigation.

Little old me, the one no one wanted to deal with when I got there ended up spending 90% of my time supporting operators and playing X-Box in a safe house with Green Berets.

I have the ARCOM and DA638 to prove it.

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