Posted on Dec 20, 2017
What was the most difficult time period during your time in the military?
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What was the most difficult time period for you during your time in the service? What made it so difficult? How did you get through it? If given the opportunity, would you approach it differently today?
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My initial response would have been the ten months and fourteen days I spent as a rifleman in Vietnam,but truth be told it was the remaining fourteen months as an instructor at Ft.Polk and trying to impart some of my knowledge and experiences to give the trainees the best possible chance to make it back home,has always haunted me if I did enough
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I concour. When I got to Germany, after two tours in Iraq, I was “asked” to conduct realistic training. Cool, no problem. Then I got in trouble for the training was scary and to realistic.
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SGT Philip Roncari
SGT BrIan Kelley-Our training was all centered on Vietnam,basic infantry stuff with any and all the new innovations we could come up with,that old lessons learned in the field,as instructors we were given the green light on teaching things that worked and those that didn’t,it was important to be as realistic as possible and I never had any trouble with my superiors about training,to this day I have misgivings if I did the best,be well Brother
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As with any assignments or deployments, IT’S the people that you work with, that make an assignment either difficult or enjoyable, whether you are in Washington DC or downrange. There were several people, some of them in command, that made my tours difficult to NO end! It’s like they woke up each morning and thought to themselves, ‘who’s life can I make difficult today…oh yeah, SFC Taggart!' Generally, I’ve worked with great people, unfortunately, I don’t keep in touch with any. The other part that was difficult for me, was leaving the military after 20+ years. I miss the benefits and steady paycheck…I haven’t gotten either one since leaving the military. My advice to anyone, don’t be so quick in leaving the military…yes, we might be a “dysfunctional Army family,” but we are family.
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Why in the hell would anyone want to intentionally mess with the Chaplain's Assistant? The CA I had at Basra was an AWESOME cat that I always went to when I needed to talk something out.
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Mine was probably going through a deployment with leadership that didn't give a shit about soldiers. My first deployment was great and our NCOs really cared, or at least acted like it. Second one soured my experience and made me hell bent on leaving. If I could do it over again, Id reenlist and take another duty station miss it like fucking crazy.
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