Posted on Dec 31, 2015
Why is it all the people that were whining around crying, "I didn't sign up for this" while on deployment are now claiming they Volunteered?
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I have noticed a giant change in military personnel and how they talk about deployment now that they are at a minimum. In 01 almost everyone wanted to go, by 04 there was a lot of "I didn't sign up for this," and by 05 it was f**k this I'm out. In 07 when I got out, troops were wore out, and deployment rumors caused AWOL en masse.
Today I hear a lot of "I volunteered for all of my deployments" and "Man, I am trying to get deployed" or "Your lucky, I wish I could get over there"
Why is the shift so dramatic?
Today I hear a lot of "I volunteered for all of my deployments" and "Man, I am trying to get deployed" or "Your lucky, I wish I could get over there"
Why is the shift so dramatic?
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Your observation is anecdotal so not really easy to respond to. Not saying it wasn't your experience but like all of us, our experience is limited to what we see/hear/observe.
We used to have a saying that as long as they were bitching, they were happy. Almost everyone complained about something. It is almost the condition of those in the military to complain (especially juniors).
You are likely listening to different people today than when you were in. Not the same cohort so you are comparing comment/response group A to comment/response group B and they are not the same sample set.
We used to have a saying that as long as they were bitching, they were happy. Almost everyone complained about something. It is almost the condition of those in the military to complain (especially juniors).
You are likely listening to different people today than when you were in. Not the same cohort so you are comparing comment/response group A to comment/response group B and they are not the same sample set.
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I would have to say that they obviously didn't fully comprehend what they were doing.
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I would dare say that during 04-07, slot of the peoe saying, " I didn't sign up for this" were the ones being stop lossed. As in fact they didn't sign up for that. At least that was my observations. Being held against your will and beyond your contract isn't fun. So it left a bad taste in a lot of soldiers.
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That's supposed to say "a lot of those people". Can't figure how to edit in the IOS App.
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I heard a lot of the same in 1991 when we deployed to Saudi. There were guys saying that they would "go to Canada" and that they "did not sign up for this". But on the other side of the coin we had an influx of volunteers from other divisions to our unit.
I was always told that "If a solider is bitching he ain't happy."
I was always told that "If a solider is bitching he ain't happy."
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Ihave only known two officers who said they didn't want to go and they didn't. I think it has to do with supply and demand. At the height of the wars we needed warm bodies, don't want to go? To bad. Know with the wars winding down there are more people willing to fill the shoes of those who don't want to go, trying to get a deployment in before it ends.... if it does.
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