Am I guaranteed a deployment as 11B in the National Guard?

I'm with Joe. A private wanting to deploy out of basic seems immature. Afghanistan is not Call of Duty. The private should work on bettering himself as a Soldier for himself and his buddies, and wait for the call. If it comes, then great, I hope he's ready. If it doesn't, then to bad. I know most do not want to be in the military in a time of war, and not get a cool deployment patch. I agree that war will change us all. Well at least the ones that have looked into the eyes of the enemy, and not worth a patch (just my opinion). Yet, someone of us did choose to deliver violence on behalf of our nation's interest. For those of you, I salute you. For others, its not meant to be. Be careful what you wish for.

MSG Dan Castaneda
Thank you. For a moment there I felt as though I had some radical opinion.

SGT Joseph Gunderson - They are just some hard charging NCO's. Nothing wrong with that. Yet, I've been down range a few times and have both seeing and done things that I hope my boys never see. As a leader, its our job to prepare our men, and wait for the call, we don't go volunteer or beg to go. Because as soon as you lose someone, or multiple Soldiers, you will always know that it was your decision that destroyed those families. While I will agree that we all signed up for this. It will never be on my conscience that they died because I had something to proof. They died, because its war and shit happens. I can sleep with that.

They are naive looking for Glory! Most think the mix is a video game, in real world people die. They don't understand true fear, they don't understand in the mix it's winner take all, no second chances. They don't understand committing the ultimate sin haunts you the rest of your life. They don't understand that when they get back the rest of the public doesn't wanna hear it, most don't care. These are things that I personally know!

Ha I've met some CSMs who would actually love that.