Originally posted by Keddrick Corday Thompson:
I see it, it just doesn't make sense. I understand most units mobilizing make sense but this does not. If you knew of why we mobilizing it would maybe shine light. We have no mission. No coordination of schedule. Just orders to go and assist some units prep for actual deployment. So the basis to not want to sacrifice only making 50 or 60k taxed is absurd. 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. This is not a deployment...smh. its a mobilization CONUS. Which makes no sense for not having a true mission and most of our day to day will be downtime. Smh.
What you suggest for submitting to move back upon my 12 month obligation and leaving the mobilization early? Because even from unit perspective...they have not validated an actual job performed for all personnel. The orders are bleak.
There's even a few soldiers injured themselves on purpose to avoid this meaningless mobilization. However, I am putting my best foot forward in stepping up to accommodate tasks that people, NCOS and OFFICERS are turning down or transferring out of the unit to not do. That should be commendable to some extent and the proactive approach I hace been taking to increase the Unit operations and development
There is different talk in the unit. Some officers saying there will be a rear detachment... some saying not. The numbers are going down and are flexed with no real bodies.
If you let me know what unit you're with, and where your unit is deploying from, I might be able to shed some light on what you guys are doing.
NOTE: I missed this when he mentioned it earlier. This was a quick-paced exchange that I was engaging in while doing other activities.
Based on what you already mentioned, they're using a reserve unit to fill the gap for an active-duty unit. This allows for the corresponding active-duty unit to deploy. You guys would be helping out with processing the deployers and those returning from deployment. This may take up your unit's time. Your unit could also be tasked to do other duties on the post that the deployed active-duty unit would do.
The Army reached the point where the active-duty units are being reserved for combat and operational deployments. Reserve units are mobilized to backfill them in the U.S. or in Europe.
When you said that your 12-month obligation is up in February, are you talking about your contract? Does your enlistment contract end in February 2021? If that is the case, you should be within your re-enlistment window. You'd be able to re-enlist into the IRR.
If you're coming to the end of your enlistment contract, then you may want to talk about options, with your unit. You may not have to deploy on the grounds that you would not be enlisting into another TPU contract.
They may still make you deploy in this scenario. Even if you deploy, and you re-enlisted into an IRR contract, you'd leave the deployment early. This would allow you to process out and transition into the IRR when your new contract kicks in.
Or, is this another kind of obligation, a 12-month obligation with your civilian contract?
You also mentioned an opportunity in your third paragraph. Officers and NCOs refusing to do their jobs, and you're willing to step in? This amplifies during a deployment. If during deployment, you fulfill a role that's higher than your current rank, that speaks strongly for your promotion into the next higher pay grade. If you fill an officer's role during a deployment, and you decide to put in for a commission, this would also speak strongly for you.
The things that you accomplish during a deployment weigh higher than the things that you accomplish when you're just doing one weekend a month and two weeks a summer.
As for rumors about a rear detachment, go by what the command team says.
NOTE: Keddrick Thompson is pulling straws with regards to options. He's also finding excuses to make his activation sound pointless. Why go on this deployment when there's no purpose to it? I explained to him how this was an opportunity, not a disaster. As an NCO, he should've seen this the way I'm seeing it.
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