Posted on Jun 15, 2017
What lesson or experience from deployment and or combat are you happy to have learned/been through?
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As we all know, you take the good with the bad. As much as many people can easily recall horrible occurences throughout many tours, it is far more important to hold onto the good things. What is an experience that you have been through or lesson that you learned through those hard times that you are actually happy to have had and why?
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In combat it was nice seeing everyone come together as one. In garrison not everyone likes everyone else. It's just human nature. I had guys in my platoon that butted heads constantly and at times wondered if one would murder the other. But when we walked out of the gate all that crap stopped. At that point we were professionals who had a job to do. I never once questioned whether any one soldier had the back of another. I don't know if you see that in any other place where you're not responsible for someone else's life.
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The friends I made while deployed, the times we shared under stress, under fire and under the threat of possible death or injury. We stood shoulder to shoulder and did not shy away from our duties and loyalty to each other. The bond made in times of war are ones only a few can relate to, the times shared together both good, bad and craziness in times of war. Nothing compares to those times in all the world. Those are times never to be forgotten or replaced by anything else. As those memories will never fade away nor will those that we served with be taken from our hearts and minds.
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Murphy 's Law that is incoming rounds have right away...too many of my friends forgot that
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I learned added patience and that just because somebody is an E6-E7 doesn't mean that they know a thing about the environment they're deployed in or the job at hand.
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The Rakkasans (187th INF REGT, 3rd BDE, 101st ABN) taught me a lesson that has shaped my life ever since. “It’s mind over matter. If you don’t mind, IT don’t matter.” Translation: if you set your mind to a task or goal, prepare for it, & work your ass off, you can literally accomplish anything you set your mind to. Because I embraced this mindset, I’ve furthered my education and have had & still have a successful career in government service. I had people & forces try hard to throw me off course, but I wasn’t having it. Keep your mind & eyes open, prepare, work, and make it do what it do!!
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I can't say I was happy to learn/go through, but I can say it was certainly interesting to learn how nasty Soldiers can be in a deployed environment in regards to sanitation.
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If it can go wrong it will go wrong it will go wrong . That’s why you have back ups for your back ups
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