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I have been a Reservist my entire career, and just as a product of circumstance, I have never deployed. I have volunteered, but I have not persistently pursued the opportunity, thinking that (at the time) volunteering would be enough given my MOS. I have trained many soldiers to do my job so they could deploy with their units, but those in my unit with the same MOS have never been called up to deploy.
So, the question is: how has this affected your career? Are you seen differently as a leader? Has it been more difficult to promote?
So, the question is: how has this affected your career? Are you seen differently as a leader? Has it been more difficult to promote?
Promotion Points
Leadership
Deployment
Military Career
Posted 11 y ago
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I've been active duty for almost 5 years, in a transportation company (I'm a mechanic) and now I am being med boarded. My unit was scheduled to deploy 3 times to Afghanistan and once to Liberia, but we never went anywhere. We did all the training, JRTC and NTC rotations, but always when it was time to load the connex, we never did... looking at it now, and probably for the rest of my life, it will be my biggest regret is not having deployed.
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Would you believe the ones we overlook for seeing the dead are the x ray techs? I talked with a guy one day who explained it to me this way, if someone is hurt, killed, blown apart, whatever, they all have to be Xrayed.if not for anything else but for the coroners report. This guy didn't see one minute of combat but all the death passed in front of his eyes. Good guys, bad guys, our guys, your guys. All of it.
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Biggest bitch of my military career right here! Iowa farm kid, joined the Army to serve my Nation and see the world. Four years of active duty gets me stationed in fucking Kansas. Wow what a change from Iowa! Three years of Iowa National Guard, volunteer for a Kosovo deployment, to many people have volunteered, first 15 people on the list get dropped, i think my name was 2nd! Enlisted in the guard 2 months after my company went to Iraq, so I was about the only guy without a combat patch. Then the guard was looking for people to get out, I had some nagging neck injuries I was dealing with so I took the early out cause nothing was in the books for a deployment for at least 2 years. Sign my release papers and a fricken month later my company comes up for an Afghanistan deployment. So 7 years of service and I have some awesome NTC stories to tell my kids about. Felt like a total failure for not having any type of deployment.
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It doesn't anymore sadly... your deployment points doesn't even count towards your promotion packet.
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It is not just the soldiers but also the promotion and schools selection boards.
And if you are not up for a medical separation board I am sure the RIF boards are also looking at it.
And if you are not up for a medical separation board I am sure the RIF boards are also looking at it.
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