Of all the OEF/OIF vets here, who wishes they could go back overseas?

After I got back, I spent time trying to go back. I was lucky, I got thrown from the IRR into the Retired Reserves with out my knowledge. I wrote to the Army Reserve CSM explaining what was done with out my knowledge. He said I had a good case to get re-instated. I prepared my packet and was ready to mail it in, then it hit me: Maybe God was trying to tell me something - get out while the getting was good. So I spent the next two years going through "Withdrawals". Now I am glad it happened. Looking back, I came back from Iraq with collapsed discs in my back and my left shoulder messed up. I would have need profiles to stay in as I no longer could do pushups. Probably would not have been deployable. So I got to leave on my own terms, sort of. Never got to really retire, I just was out. But looking back, I am glad it went that way.
If they came and wanted me back, yea I would go. My oath never ended.

By in large I never want to go back, that said there are days I do think about it. For me it was the 5 month roll up to going I hated more than anything. That did not prepare for much of anything other than raise my knowledge on things that can get my blood boiling faster than anything.

I would go back in a heartbeat. It's so simple over there, even if more dangerous. Wake up, gym, do your job, eat, sleep, repeat.

If needed I would but retired for over three years and these old bones are tired.

I would in a heartbeat.

Yes, hands down.

Hell yeah! Everyday I do!

within 6 months of returning from iraq, i was training to go back, got bumped of for more senior people, so began training for afgan, because of a simple switch of meds for my ptsd got dq'd, buy the time it got reversed too late missed to much training, if i couldve been there with my team one of my sms would not have come back with a broken back after being thrown out of turret on a night mission with an inexperince driver, i still think of this kid everyday because we both served in iraq together

I do - all good to me.

With a guarantee to be able to kill the enemy until there aren't any more of them left, I would go in a heartbeat. My time there was exhilarating and frustrating. We were doing things that had never been done before in a combat zone, and there is only one chance to be the first of anything. So, next time better be about the one chance to be the last ones standing.