Mobilization-Advice and suggestions

[DangerousDan]

At this point I have just started counting the days to R&R and leaving.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel since my demobilization orders have come through. I am really ready to get outa here since I am completely burnt out and am really to pull chocks outa here.

Overall I would say that other than enjoying some of the people I have met and worked with here this whole mobilization has been a year of my life wasted.

Things I have learned when it comes to here.

NAVCENT LNO= Worthless PU$$Ys
Army Staff Chiefs= Asshole Pricks

Just my 2 c.

Note I am considering coming back. But as a civilian not as a military member.

 

[bucki4lyfe]

Another question on mobilization: Rumor around NIRR Washington, DC is "2 in 5"...because there are so many individual augmentee positions out there and not enough people to fill them...intel people are deploying twice in five years...which runs counter to what was said before about not being involutarily mob'd for 5 years once you've done a tour. Any thoughts on that?

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel since my demobilization orders have come through. I am really ready to get outa here since I am completely burnt out and am really to pull chocks outa here.

Best of luck Dan...you home yet?

 

[macattack]

Another question on mobilization: Rumor around NIRR Washington, DC is "2 in 5"...because there are so many individual augmentee positions out there and not enough people to fill them...intel people are deploying twice in five years...which runs counter to what was said before about not being involutarily mob'd for 5 years once you've done a tour. Any thoughts on that?

Just looking to the next couple of years or so...but if we're drawing down from Iraq wouldn't that take the burden off the Reserves a bit for those positions, even with an increase in Afghanistan?

 

[DangerousDan]

Another question on mobilization: Rumor around NIRR Washington, DC is "2 in 5"...because there are so many individual augmentee positions out there and not enough people to fill them...intel people are deploying twice in five years...which runs counter to what was said before about not being involutarily mob'd for 5 years once you've done a tour. Any thoughts on that?



Best of luck Dan...you home yet?

No Not for another 30 days although I know my relief is in the pipeline. I havent heard anything regarding 2 in 5..

Just looking to the next couple of years or so...but if we're drawing down from Iraq wouldn't that take the burden off the Reserves a bit for those positions, even with an increase in Afghanistan?

That would be true. However NAVCENT has not figured out with MNF-I what billets will be cut yet and thus still have people sourced in the pipeline. Perhaps OPNAV N2 and ECRC should they should actually go and do an in depth scrub of the requirements. If you are an 0-2/3 and it depends on wither you'll actually doing anything intel related. Expect to be someones bitch boy.

If 2 in 5 is true :icon_rage. They have got their pound of flesh out of me, now its time for me to go and do what I want.

 

[bucki4lyfe]

No Not for another 30 days although I know my relief is in the pipeline. I havent heard anything regarding 2 in 5..


That would be true. However NAVCENT has not figured out with MNF-I what billets will be cut yet and thus still have people sourced in the pipeline. Perhaps OPNAV N2 and ECRC should they should actually go and do an in depth scrub of the requirements. If you are an 0-2/3 and it depends on wither you'll actually doing anything intel related. Expect to be someones bitch boy.

If 2 in 5 is true :icon_rage. They have got their pound of flesh out of me, now its time for me to go and do what I want.

Dan, you're pretty much right...

I had my INDOC this weekend at NAF Washington and got some news on the mob stuff. This one petty officer told us that 1) if you wanted to mobilize...you could...even if you're not trained. As you mentioned, you could go be in charge of some motor pool or something somewhere, 2) that you got 4 days "non-mob" time for every 1 day you were mobilized...so you do a year, that's at least 4 years off. At least that's for us reservists.

Stay safe and get home soon.

 

[DangerousDan]

Freedom Bird

Just wanted to give everyone an update. I flew back on friday from Kuwait and safely spent the weekend in DC enjoying some time with my friends. Ill be flying down to gulfport to demobilize. Ill have an updated post deployment at some time soon.

Dan

 

[smloan2]

Welcome home Dan.

 

[DangerousDan]

Just wanted to give everyone an update. I flew back on friday from Kuwait and safely spent the weekend in DC enjoying some time with my friends. Ill be flying down to gulfport to demobilize. Ill have an updated post deployment at some time soon.

Dan

Updated post deployment.

Things I enjoyed.
*Working in a palace.
*Working with people from multiple agencies (state dept, customs, alphabet soup agencies) and countries(brits, aussies, romanians, translators).
*R&R where you can go anywhere in the world. I went down under.
*Playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band for entertainment with a couple of senior colonels and other senior officers.
*Awards I picked up a fair array for this deployment although I wasnt gunning for them just wanting to go and do my part.
*3 hots, a cot, internet in the chu and a golden throne to sit on.
*Tax Free dough.
*Having your buddy LT.
*Smoking Cuban Cigars
*Open Carry.


Things I hated.
*Working in a palace.
*Being the most junior officer in a Headquarters staff (aka coffee bitch and tech support)
*Army work mentality
You need to be at your desk for X hours a day or your a slacker rather than work until your job is done until going home
Leadership not giving people days off since they are making more work for themselves and their people yet bitching after being told by the general to try to get everyone out of the office on weekends.
*Professional development. I hadnt had a Navy CAPT looking out for me professional I feel that I would have wasted a year of my life and not learned anything related to my designator (Note: This could be true for all IA's yet with intel people were supposed to be doing intel work not being pushed into a random IA billet.
*Dealing with the Generals personal staff who obsess over every little thing as if the war was going to end because he hadnt got a question on time.
*Navcent drinking the army coolaid and not taking care of their sailors.
*Groundhog day
*G.O. #1

Coolest things I got to see/do.
*R. Lee Ermey signing autographs for 3 hours for ever single person who came to see him
*Colbert coming to Baghdad
*Seeing Vince McMann bringing the WWE to baghdad
*Victory over America Palace

Things I missed about home
*Rain/seasons
*Weekends
*Porn/Sex/Beer
*My Road Bike

Best thing from Iraq.
KDD Silver Ice Cream!

 

[k2fourever]

Dan,

Welcome home. If you don't mind me asking - how did your IA come about? Was it a billet you volunteered for (and had the orders written up as invol.), or did you just get thrown into it?

 

[DangerousDan]

Dan,

Welcome home. If you don't mind me asking - how did your IA come about? Was it a billet you volunteered for (and had the orders written up as invol.), or did you just get thrown into it?

They were originally voluntary orders to Bahrain. However when VADM Gohrtney cancelled all IA's to Bahrain I got pushed to iraq. They were written up as invol though.