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I've been trying since I enlisted, but I've had absolutely no luck. Any help out there?? 88M in the national guard.
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This coming from a parachute rigger. I'm sure your deployment was so tough. Deciding to play xbox or go to the gym or whether or not to drive to the AF dfac. You must of been real busy rigging all those chutes for all those airborne ops going on. Silly little POG...
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SPC Rory J. Mattheisen
SGT (Join to see) - There you go opening your mouth and removing all doubt. I was on a fuel mission, did you use fuel while you were in country?
By the way weekend warrior, I was active duty, it will take you 20 years to put as much time in as I did. So before you want to go calling some one POG, make sure you have a LEG to stand on.
Guys like you make the rest of us dislike the NG/R components, talking shit cause you think your Infantry, your not. Poser, you don't deserve to wear a blue cord.
By the way weekend warrior, I was active duty, it will take you 20 years to put as much time in as I did. So before you want to go calling some one POG, make sure you have a LEG to stand on.
Guys like you make the rest of us dislike the NG/R components, talking shit cause you think your Infantry, your not. Poser, you don't deserve to wear a blue cord.
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oh, im sorry. you were playing xbox in between fueling up my vehicles. 20 years? I probably have more deployment time than you had in active duty, all the while juggling a career, a family, and military obligation. its ok, not everyone can wear a blue cord. thank you for your support...
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SSG Michael Montoya
It isn't BS after having seen 7 deployments during my 20 years in....and that probably would have been 10 deployments if I had not reenlisted for Japan my second to last time....those 3 years with no deployments and no constant training for deployments was the only reason I made it past 10 years and then to 20 years. That was with me being a single soldier the entire time, I could not imagine having to leave behind a wife and kids that much.....as it was I didn't have time to get married or have kids since I was not going to rush into a relationship due to PCS or deployment. I was not looking to be one of those statistics of divorced military members. It may be that you will never run into that sort of problem since deployments aren't as bad as they were and you're being National Guard.
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I feel your frustration and can't give you any guidance. I enlisted in August 1990 to go kill Sadam. I'm retiring in January 2016 with only ONE combat deployment on my DD-214. I volunteered for the first Gulf War, Somalia in 1992, and have only had one deployment to Afghanistan, and that was 7 years ago. It is ironic. There are many on this site who have more deployments than they can count. There are some who never wanted to deploy but had to. There are some who have looked for deployment but found few to none.
It is easy for a combat vet to tell you something like "be careful what you wish for" or "you don't want to do that". But, each of us has reasons for wanting to test our metal. I won't tell you "be careful what you wish for". I'll tell you that I fully understand your wanting to go and hope it works out for you in the end.
Good luck brother.
It is easy for a combat vet to tell you something like "be careful what you wish for" or "you don't want to do that". But, each of us has reasons for wanting to test our metal. I won't tell you "be careful what you wish for". I'll tell you that I fully understand your wanting to go and hope it works out for you in the end.
Good luck brother.
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MAJ David Kline
SPC (Join to see) - Good luck brother. I hope you do get the chance to go, because I completely understand "why" you want to do it. It WILL change you in some way, along with those you love. That I can promise.
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SPC (Join to see) You and 10,000 others. Problem is there isn't that much of a call regardless of MOS. In 2009 there were OVER 3300 Wisconsin National Guard Troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Today there around 9800 troops from the whole DOD in Afghanistan, plus what we have deployed to the Middle East. The gig is over. Train hard and pray for war. I didn't say that, I just quoted it.
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