Just found out, 95% chance I'm being activated

[staticpike]

The subject says it all.

I'm part of the US Naval reserve. I just came off a stunt of 6 years active duty in the US Navy from 98 to 04 in July. I came out with an honorable discharge and decided to go to school here at Tennessee Technological University. I'm doing well and generally happier than I have been in the past 6 years. Even though I wasn't happy with my particualr expeience in the Navy, I joined the reserve hoping to not give up what time I had served and decide if I ever wanted to get that commission that I went in for. It was a calculated decision because I always new that there existed a chance of activation (although I calculated it as small even with the current rebuilding in Iraq). This Just proves that small isn't quite small enough.

I'm not upset about going to Iraq. That part doesn't bother me. I'm a supporter of the effort there and of George Bush; I won't place blame or regret on that. I am rather upset about the sudden change to my life though. I was miserable while I was active duty and the past 6 months have been so good to me - my new apartment, school, new friends, being home for the holidays for the first time in years. The relationship possibilities with a certain friend of mine... But now I have to put all of that on hold or put it away and once again find myself somewhere else doing things that I'm not fullfilled in doing. I've always wanted to play the part of the hero, but never got that chance on active duty and somehow doubt this will be any different. This will be my 5th deployment...

I am a christian and I believe in God, and that I have a particular purpose in the ultimate plan of everything. I thought I was begining to understand my purpose, but now I'm not so sure about what I need to do, and this brings in so many questions...

I feel my motivation slipping and all things that made me good at civilian life slowly crawling back toward they way I was in my active duty days.

Please don't take this as a complaint. All of this falls on my own shoulders, and I am sadly aware of that. I simply need to write something down somewhere and feel that someone else was reading it.

[95fbirdkid]

Just know that all us members are supporting you, and appritiate what you are/will be doing.

As you said, you knew it was a possibility. Try and keep thinking about it in as much of a possitive light as you can.

Thank you, and stay safe. :salute:

[L32Projekt]

Stay safe out there, I may be joining you shortly in that area, maybe somewhere else, who knows. Stay alert and watch your buddy's 6, they'll do the same for you.

[imported_admin]

Thank good ole Dubya for overextending our forces.

[95fbirdkid]

Originally posted by Stefan:
Thank good ole Dubya for overextending our forces.

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na na na na bo bo, we won and you lost.... 4 more years.... [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

[ December 07, 2004, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: 95fbirdkid ]

[imported_admin]

Yes, how wonderful. Four more years of sending more and more reservists out. Four more years of stretching our military to its absolute limits. Four more years of sending young men like staticpike to die in pointless wars in third world countries that no one gives a damn about. Four more years of widening the deficit to never-before-imagined levels that cripples our economy and breaks the backs of our working class taxpayers to fund these wars of oil conquest. Lovely.

[Mighty Thor]

Stay safe. Watch your back and your brothers and sisters up there.

THis Jan. 30th election there is crucial and it will be the turning point for alot of Iraqis.

There's alot of work alright. Rome wasn't built on a day. But it will be over alot sooner than we think.

[ABH]

And then there is this:

US admits the war for hearts and minds in Iraq is now lost.
http://www.sundayherald.com/46389

A snippet:

THE Pentagon has admitted that the war on terror and the invasion and occupation of Iraq have increased support for al-Qaeda, made ordinary Muslims hate the US and caused a global backlash against America because of the “self-serving hypocrisy” of George W Bush’s administration over the Middle East.

The mea culpa is contained in a shockingly frank “strategic communications” report, written this autumn by the Defence Science Board for Pentagon supremo Donald Rumsfeld.

And this: http://slate.msn.com/id/2090250/

A snippet: It puts the lie to the Bush administration's PR campaign that postwar Iraq is progressing nicely and that the media are exaggerating the setbacks.

[ December 07, 2004, 02:20 PM: Message edited by: ABH ]

[MrCoffee]

Originally posted by Stefan:
Thank good ole Dubya for overextending our forces.

c'mon stefan thats not a good way to bring the morale of our troops up. Lets give them thanks instead of yea go fight bush's war.

[Denis]

Link to the full 111 page DSB report for those who don't rely on news bites.

[3.4 slow to go]

:rolleyes: to all the haters out there.

yeah, whatever. [img]graemlins/slap.gif[/img]


God Speed to you staticpike, some of appreciate what you have done/will do. Maybe you can take how you've felt the last six months into your stint again and make it better for this time around.

[ December 08, 2004, 01:26 AM: Message edited by: 3.4 slow to go ]

[pontiac nino]

Best of luck to you staticpike. [img]graemlins/wavey.gif[/img]
Bring some trophies home! :D

[speedracer95v6]

Originally posted by Stefan:
Yes, how wonderful. Four more years of sending more and more reservists out. Four more years of stretching our military to its absolute limits. Four more years of sending young men like staticpike to die in pointless wars in third world countries that no one gives a damn about. Four more years of widening the deficit to never-before-imagined levels that cripples our economy and breaks the backs of our working class taxpayers to fund these wars of oil conquest. Lovely.

I wish people wouldn't cry for reservists. They know the risks. I knew the risks. Am I going to Iraq? Possibly. Am I, a young man, going to die? Maybe, but when you consider I have a bigass rocket launcher and an M16A4 (with 3 more heat packin guys along with me), which side do you think will lose?

Good luck with your deployment.

[3.4 slow to go]

Damn people, I felt more scared waiting outside the Atlanta Airport than anytime in Iraq.

[Everglades W68]

Thank you for your service and I wish you all the best.