Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic
Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic
Posted on Mar 1, 2019
What's the probability that I will be a late deployer? How does this process work?
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I'm pcsing to drum in the fall the unit I'm going to deploys about 3 weeks before I arrive to Iraq. So I have a few questions.
What's the probability that I will be a late deployer? in processing there takes 3 to 4 weeks.
What is Iraq like?
I'm a 91 bravo who's recovery certified so what kind of things will i be doing there? this will be my first time. And if they don't put me as a late deployer how do i go about becoming one?
What's the probability that I will be a late deployer? in processing there takes 3 to 4 weeks.
What is Iraq like?
I'm a 91 bravo who's recovery certified so what kind of things will i be doing there? this will be my first time. And if they don't put me as a late deployer how do i go about becoming one?
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91B: Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic
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SGT (Join to see) Rear D is likely running SRP on weekly/every two weeks cycles to push out late deployers. Once they hit a predetermined point, they’ll stop. I saw deployers stop on a one year deployment at the 8-9 month mark.
In general, recovery during a deployment can be mundane like I forgot to switch tanks over to IED strikes with casualties. Launching recovery was a combat operation. We’d kick out a QRF with guntrucks, wreckers and LHS/PLS to pick up the vehicle. Someone would be designated to recover remains. They’d go by helicopter to the MACP. We’d use old G300 parachutes as tarps so the enemy would have to expose themselves to get BDA.
Once inside the FOB we had a volunteer team in a private area go through the vehicle and get any remains or bloody fabric items out. Fabric was burned. Disassociated portions were in remains pouches and evacuated to the MACP. EOD would have to recover any remaining munitions.
The unit had to do a FLIPL and 15-6 to wash out the vehicle and equipment. FMTV wrecker was useless. M984E, Stryker Recovery System to a lesser extent were the work horse.
Gorges posed significant challenges. If you couldn’t get in there, you had to contact for a crane. A few times we had to strip a vehicle of sensitive items and sling it out in pieces OR JDAM on one occasion.
In general, recovery during a deployment can be mundane like I forgot to switch tanks over to IED strikes with casualties. Launching recovery was a combat operation. We’d kick out a QRF with guntrucks, wreckers and LHS/PLS to pick up the vehicle. Someone would be designated to recover remains. They’d go by helicopter to the MACP. We’d use old G300 parachutes as tarps so the enemy would have to expose themselves to get BDA.
Once inside the FOB we had a volunteer team in a private area go through the vehicle and get any remains or bloody fabric items out. Fabric was burned. Disassociated portions were in remains pouches and evacuated to the MACP. EOD would have to recover any remaining munitions.
The unit had to do a FLIPL and 15-6 to wash out the vehicle and equipment. FMTV wrecker was useless. M984E, Stryker Recovery System to a lesser extent were the work horse.
Gorges posed significant challenges. If you couldn’t get in there, you had to contact for a crane. A few times we had to strip a vehicle of sensitive items and sling it out in pieces OR JDAM on one occasion.
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From what I have experienced some units will send people over even after they get there later like you will. I guess it might depend on how much time left they have over there if they want to send you or leave you behind in what they call Rear D. My time in Iraq wasn’t that bad. I like it better than Afghanistan. But it will depend on where in Iraq you are going though. You will probably be in the motor pool they have at what ever camp you go to. If you want to go just ask whoever is in charge of you when you get to your unit. Something like that is hard to say because each branch and unit does thing differently.
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Very likely. Always need recovery personnel.
My what's it like is outdated, except heat in the summer.
My what's it like is outdated, except heat in the summer.
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