I have been in the army for almost 8 years now. I've seen and heard about some pretty stupid stuff done, but this crap takes the cake. I got deployed over here(kuwait/Iraq) last year, landed Jan 21st. My team and I sat around waiting for the ground war to start.. no problem. Finally we went north and did our job for 7 months. Well at the end of Oct we get word that our mission is over and we are to go to Kuwait to clean our gear and head home. Well 3 months later.. past our 1 year mark, and we are still here.. getting jerked around on when we can go home. We have been doing nothing except sitting here. ****, we finally started asking people in my unit about when we were going to be able to leave.. and they didn't even know that we were still out here. Talk about a shitty feeling.. to be forgotten.



I've seen a lot of units that got out here after my team and has already went home. There are even people within my unit that have gone home after only being out here for 6 months or less.



I have little over 5 months left in.. and I cant wait to get out!!!



So if anyone is thinking about joining... don't go signal (military communications).



thanks for reading my rant..

Tell em about your life expectancy as signal in the army.



3000watts of power, holding up a big sign saying "KILLL UUUUSSSSS FIIIRRRSSSTTT"

HAHAHA well I dont know about 3000watts.. most we transmit at is about 20watts.. but im sure it still stands out like a bulls eye https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png



but yea.. for being signal... these guys cant comunicate with each other for crap. its like they think something up.. then expect everyone to read there minds, insted of sending a damn e-mail.

I know how you feel...



I'm a 31F/31S/74B



Sucks sometimes.........

My cousin got fucked into being over there for 1 1/2 years almost. They kept pushing back the date, he was pissed. Then they lost the container that had all of his units personal belongings. He lost everything except what he had in a backpack. They said " We aren't sure what happened to it"

Well sorry to hear about that. My brother just came back from the marines and he said the army isnt the best service to go into. I dont know if its the brainwash but the army alsways seems to get screwed over the most. There missions arent as planned and precise as other units. SO i dunno why they still have you there. Cant you talk to someone and see whats going on?



jason nyc

at least you're not stop-loss'd :(

At least it is tax free, but I would much rather be home.

Damn that sucks, stay focused man.

Trip and fall and break a toe....then yell: UNFIT FOR DUTY! UNFIT FOR DUTY!

i enlisted in the marine corp about a year and a half ago, spent 3 weeks at paradise island and got kicked out because i have a little asthma problem, i was a sqaud leader and i kinda liked it, my 3 best friends are in the corp. too and they all wanna come home, one is recon now and hates it, im kinda glad im home but the point is they let me go, i didnt even get a chance to **** up, lol oorah!, semper fi! oh well, it was a valuable learning experience, everyone should spend a week at boot camp in my opinion, really makes you look at the world in a whole new perspective. props to any enlisted service man! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR

I know what happened to it. They left it at a port or depot somewhere.. What happenes it there are so many small entities tracking movement of cargo, the numbers get lost somewhere... When they can't find cargo (Or when someone has something they don't own) it gets "lost". Don't really know where it goes, but it gets written off per say..



USTRANSCOM just inherited the role of tracking movement of cargo from end to end to put an end to this lost cargo ****.. It's called Distribution Process Ownership. We watch it all now, from "factory to foxhole". Hopefully we can make a change.



I know how you feel... I lost lots of **** too.... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

right now we are just waiting on the paperwork to be done.. but that takes forever in the army. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683358.gif