Blanket Response

[spadepacolypse]

Thanks or all the responses. New rule as of today, back packs not even aloud hanging on you bike outside the T-barriers. Perfect. And although you all articulated your arguments well I must disagree with the idea that the no back pack rule is good. If I am in uniform and have a military ID that some one actually looks at seriously I should be

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[snarkactual]

We left a life that we ran ourselves, you did not. You are told who, what, where, when everyday of your life. I tell myself. I make decisions that affect whether food gets put on the table for my wife and children or whether my business, school career etc. continue. Someone makes those decisions for you and it is pretty tough for you to lose everything from a lay-off don't you think.

I probably don't know the difference between the AD and the ARNG. Neither do you. As amply demonstrated in the above rant. I make decisions not only about the same things you do but have to make daily decisions that affect the lives (many times literally decisions of life and death) of the people in my unit. We don't have lay-offs we have RIFs and then there's the up and out policy that means you can't just hang out doing the same job for years. So suck it up troop and open your eyes and ears twice as much as your mouth.

BTW, The 159th is on their second tour of Iraq. They established a reputation during their first tour and if the SF guys like to use their birds for ops it is because they earned the respect of the SF during a shitload of missions that were pretty nasty. They took casualties and lost birds to enemy fire and did their job in a way that earned them the respect and probably the swagger the members of the unit effect.

"We are activated not active duty." There is nothing you can do to me here that I am going to remember in 6 months.

Well with an attitude like that I hope you're right. Sounds to me like the attitude of a sillyvillian. So when you return to the states do what you say you will. We don't need people who cannot work well with others and cannot learn or think. For learning, thinking and working as part of a team is what the Army is all about.

[spadepacolypse]

I don't know why or how we got to this point of arguing with each other. In reference to the 159th the proof is in the numbers, my battalion is dusting them. And SF didn'tr choose them Brigade did, as a slap in the face to the guard. Flight hours and OR rate is what I am talking about, it's not even close. But they have the attitude that they are so much better not us. ALso it is very clear you don't know the difference between AD and Guard, because we are all here we all make decisions like the ones you mentioned above, however back home our lives are very different. AD lives a structured life dependent on the Army to make most of their decisions or give them plenty of guidance to do so. Civilian soldiers like myself do both and we do it just as good here in Aviation. So maybe if the AD started treating us like we were team members things would run smoother here.