Great Leader's
I am currently in C Co. 1-189th AVN, part of the 18th AVN Brig. Our battalion just went over 10k flight hours. Huge dude, simply huge. My company back in Arizona on an annual basis maybe does 1,500 flight hours, we just contributed over 3,000 in 6 months. Amazing and a testament to the hard work by everyone involved. What I find amazing is that through all this we still get shit on by the leadership here. Not our immediate leadership but the active duty brigade assholes. They constantly harass us about bull shit and add unneeded stress to our days. Just tired of it and it is driving some of us crazy. The newest thing, well I guess there is a few new things, include no flags of any kind flying over our trailers that we live in. Why you ask well some half wit thinks they look unprofessional. Hey retard we live in a trailer park with nasty blue porta potties everywhere how professional can we make it? Oh yeah here is a good one, no back packs in the chow halls due to force protection. Ok I understand we had a tragic incident in Mosul, when an Iraqi guy dressed in a stolen Iraqi uniform blew up a chow hall. But why punish American soldiers. We live out of our back packs through out the day that usually stretches us 12+ hours away from our rooms. Instead maybe we should make everyone who is not an American soldier eat somewhere else. I am tired of feeling like a fucking prisoner. I didn't ask to be here and believe it or not I don't need the shitty Army to make it in life like that dumb shit Sergeant Major Wilbur. Maybe you should say something like "good job soldier" instead of "fix that haircut" or "your uniform is dirty don't come to my chow hall again like that". Well no shit its dirty moron, I have been working all day not siiting in my office a/c thinking of ways to make soldiers lives miserable. Remember SGM we shit bag guard guys, yeah we run our own lives at home. We have houses and cars and wives and children, stuff I guess you dont know about. We don't need some grumpy, couldn't make it in real life active duty power monger telling us how to do shit. We deserve better, especially cosidering our guard battalion is kicking the crap out of your high speed active duty units in every way. And more importantly as a boss or supervisor or whatever it is you think you are, we down here at the bottom, yeah us undisciplined E-4s and E-5s, we don't need you. You need us. This place wheres on your nerves and I am finding it increasingly hard to keep my mouth shut when I hear the crap that spews forth from these leaders. Anyway I guess the reason I have to write this stuff in my journal is that it is currently the only avenue for me to unload. Everyone here feels the same way and it gets us nowhere when we vent the same frustrations over and over to each other. The people who need to hear it don't because all they do is ride you for all your supposed screw ups never saying good job or asking how a soldier is doing. Just more kicks to the balls, and then I can read in the paper about "why are the army's numbers dropping". I wish they would ask me. Please feel free to print and share this and I also welcome any comments.