Keddrick Corday Thompson: Was you combat arms...probably not...because you wouldn't have made it.
What I said in one of the posts that you replied to:
"I deployed to Iraq as an Infantryman." -- [REDACTED]
As for "not making it". You stated this:
"However, I promoted in and not trying to lose my rank. So," - Keddrick Corday Thompson
And this:
"But the 12 months is when my obligation to the unit ends regarding keeping my rank as well." -- Keddrick Corday Thompson
This obligation ends:
"My 12 month obligation would be up in February so if possible I could even mobilize and request to transfer then to another TPU as I would be able to keep my rank and progression." - Keddrick Corday Thompson
With 16, 17 years in the Army, you had just promoted to your current rank whether you promoted to SGT or SSG.
You appeared to have a hard time going up in rank. Given your demeanor in this exchange, I am not surprised. You make things about you, and not about your unit and about those you serve with. You didn't appear to be concerned about helping your unit with its "soon to be mission".
Assuming that you are an NCO, my initial impression of you, above, was that you were either a Private or a Specialist.
So, it does not surprise me that you took a long time to promote. For most of the time, your NCO support channel may not have wanted to promote you. They may have identified you as someone that places his own interest above that of the unit/Army. They may not have deemed you "mature enough" for such a promotion.
Now that you are in a reserve unit, chances are that you are in a support role. Not infantry. I could only imagine what your NCO support channel, and your chain of command, are thinking with regards to your efforts to sham out of your upcoming deployment... Like a Specialist or Private trying to sham out of going to drill.
Your refusing to go to Texas is akin to you refusing to step up to do what an NCO is expected to do.
Keddrick Corday Thompson: Thanks for thinking you schooling me...
No, there is no "thinking that I did" about this. I am schooling you. Assuming that you are an NCO, you are demonstrating that you lack the knowledge that NCOs normally possess. I informed you of many new things above. These are things that are considered common knowledge among the NCO community. I would not be surprised if others in the unit are seeing in you what I'm seeing in you.
Keddrick Corday Thompson: any idiot can google the definitions of Army or other military terms and copy and paste.
You are hoping, via excessive pride, that I did that. However, I didn't do what you are implying I did.
What I explained to you, above, is based on personal experience as well as on formal and informal military education. The phases of deployment, for example, are included in one of the PSYOP FMs.
Again, I have a quarter of a century, cumulative, of military service under my belt. I'm currently in the Retired Reserve. I'm liable to being recalled to active duty and to be deployed as an activated retired reservist... Or transferred into the IRR from the Retired Reserve and then mobilized and deployed.
Keddrick Corday Thompson: I deploy with infantry units.
As PSYOP, if I were to deploy, it would either be with infantry units or with special forces. As a matter of fact, PSYOP falls under the special operations umbrella.
Keddrick Corday Thompson: Sorry you never got the thrill of real combat action and know what it feels to earn an actual badge.
You see, this is an attempt, on your part, to regain control in a situation where you know you have lost control. You, not knowing the details of my own experiences, wrap yourself with an excessive amount of pride. You speak with a combination of narcissism issues, anger issues, and control issues.
You're seeing yourself as getting destroyed in this exchange. So, you make up for that by talking down on the opposition based on your assumption of that opposition.
Your profile has a past position involving you as a team leader in charge of a rifle fire team. However, you provided detail involving you being assigned to the Battalion TOC. Based on my infantry experiences, there is an excellent chance that you were not wanted in one of the rifle companies... Based on your actions while in a riffle company. Result? They stuck you in the TOC. This is assuming that your prior deployments were done as infantry.
Considering that you list yourself as being Army Reserve, you are not infantry now. You're deploying as a "POG". Based on your listed profession, possibly as part of S-6. Naturally, you would deploy as a part of an Infantry unit, at battalion, as one of the "POGs".
You're like me, a POG that was prior infantry.
I can tell, buy the way you are behaving here, why they would want to stick you in the TOC. I doubt that if your unit were to stand up a rear detachment, that you would be in it. Why? With less people to deal with, your behavior would have more of a negative impact on everybody else. It would be more amplified than if they had more people to work with. They could not detail you to a tiger team as they would if they had plenty of people to continue to work with.
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