Here is what 20 + years of honorable service gets you at the end.
You got your 20 year letter and right when your about to retire with over 5,000 points. Thats 2.5 times the amount a regular drilling reservist would have! They mobilize you to go to war. OK there is a war going on but wait there is more. They are not mobilizing me along with other MI soldiers to perform in our MOS that we have trained for many years and some of us have deployed as before...
No, not at all, they are going to take us and give us another MOS via an intensive 1 month of training. What MOS you ask? 38B civil affairs NCO. Notice I wrote one month of intensive training, it must be because if you check out the link below you will note that normally if an NCO reclassifies it is a 20 week course. OK - is my math bad but does that mean I only get 20-25% of the training?
http://www.goarmy.com/JobDetail.do?id=193
Oh and there is one more thing and here is the kicker. I get to Mobilize/deploy with other disgruntled IIR soldiers that have never been Civil Affairs or infantry. To a country where we are not wanted and as one CA Major puts it "we have fire fights every day we go out". Can you see the smile of eager and anticipation on my face as you read this??? NOT - Oh I am not bitter or disgruntled, OK I lied, but I am also in total shock.
To me this is the DRAFT!
1. Your telling someone who has no military obligation to go. NOTE: I have 20 + years & 5,000 + points = obligation met & no longer have one. I did my time & paid my dues.
2. Your telling them to go under the military occupation skill that the Army needs. Not what their skill sets are.
3. You minimually train them.
4. You rush them to the war zone.
Thank you Generals and Politicians for providing me with this last opportunity to truly see how much you care for those in Uniform. Next time I will vote Democrat, I would much rather have a president getting a blow job in his office then stabbing me in the back.
Your mistaken, if you think that this cannot happen too you!