screaming underwater
That's kind of what I feel like I am doing right now.
My mate's "base" (read as collection of tents.) has been put on a curfew making it nearly impossible for him to get online to even email me. He is also going to be lucky to be home by X-mas...if his back doesn't give out before then. I have tried talking to his doctor, who I haven't heard from since he told me he was going to speak to the head of the family care clinic. I even tried getting military one source to help, but my mate's problem is a "conflict of interest" for them so they are no help. No one who has the ability to help, cares about him. To them he is just another warm body in the field. When I talk to people here about it all I get is the "well that's the military," as an excuse. I got news for these brain dead dipshits. Had I known then what I know now, I would have probably looked my mate right in the face and told him "fine, you wanna fuck your life up and not listen. Do it without me." But I didn't and now I am stuck. Yes, I know it's my fault. I do blame myself for thinking if I moved out here, I could get something done about his back and get proof he should be put on a non-deployable profile. I didn't have enough time though. We moved out here and 2 weeks later while we were still trying to get settled in to the house (if you can call it that) he was told he was being deployed. He had not even been home a year, but because he was sent to a different unit where the rest of them had been home at least a year, he had to go. He has a permanant profile because of his ear, but he still had to go. He had just started physical therapy for his back and there was no guarentee he could still do it over there, but he still had to go. They tried to make it sound like he had some sort of choice to not go...even having one of his commanders TELL him to go AWOL, but no, he still went. I am weighing my options right now of the few things I have left that I can do. I don't really like any of them.
My mate's "base" (read as collection of tents.) has been put on a curfew making it nearly impossible for him to get online to even email me. He is also going to be lucky to be home by X-mas...if his back doesn't give out before then. I have tried talking to his doctor, who I haven't heard from since he told me he was going to speak to the head of the family care clinic. I even tried getting military one source to help, but my mate's problem is a "conflict of interest" for them so they are no help. No one who has the ability to help, cares about him. To them he is just another warm body in the field. When I talk to people here about it all I get is the "well that's the military," as an excuse. I got news for these brain dead dipshits. Had I known then what I know now, I would have probably looked my mate right in the face and told him "fine, you wanna fuck your life up and not listen. Do it without me." But I didn't and now I am stuck. Yes, I know it's my fault. I do blame myself for thinking if I moved out here, I could get something done about his back and get proof he should be put on a non-deployable profile. I didn't have enough time though. We moved out here and 2 weeks later while we were still trying to get settled in to the house (if you can call it that) he was told he was being deployed. He had not even been home a year, but because he was sent to a different unit where the rest of them had been home at least a year, he had to go. He has a permanant profile because of his ear, but he still had to go. He had just started physical therapy for his back and there was no guarentee he could still do it over there, but he still had to go. They tried to make it sound like he had some sort of choice to not go...even having one of his commanders TELL him to go AWOL, but no, he still went. I am weighing my options right now of the few things I have left that I can do. I don't really like any of them.