http://www.corpsman.com/2008/12/read-the-names-in-the-article-remember-who-wants-to-shaft-you/ A Medical Enlisted Military Web Community, For all Military Services. Past, Present, Future and Relatives of, All are Welcome. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:32:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.corpsman.com/2008/12/read-the-names-in-the-article-remember-who-wants-to-shaft-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Doc1_12 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:07:07 +0000 http://www.corpsman.com/?p=1461#comment-1344 When we all voluntarilly signed on, we knew there would be separations, and the hardships. We knew there would be people in Washington D.C. voting to control our lives, and making decisions that make absolutely no sense to us.<br>So, what do we do? We do our jobs as we're told, we sit on that tarmac day after day. We learn the hard way that we don't tell our families when we're coming home because it isn't going to happen.<br>War or no war, in the Navy, we are going to suffer through deployments. It's a fact of life. If you didn't know that war was a possibility, or that war was going to cause a hardship when you signed up, well, your bust.<br>For those of us who have been part of the volunteer armed forces era, we knew what we were getting into, even though we never thought it may happen. But the military has always been the military, the government has always been the government, and neither of them will ever change. Well, I recant that. My son is in the Navy now, and from what I understand, things are a lot easier than they were 20 years ago, so there are some changes.<br>So, you are right in the respect that you can express your opinion, and I'm glad you did. But I hope you don't carry that around with you, because it's going to eat you alive, and for something that isn't going to change, and something that you won't get changed, is it worth taking your mind off the mission, and risking the lives of others, or not being able to take care of your Marine?<br>Let it go... We signed up for this... When we all voluntarilly signed on, we knew there would be separations, and the hardships. We knew there would be people in Washington D.C. voting to control our lives, and making decisions that make absolutely no sense to us.
So, what do we do? We do our jobs as we're told, we sit on that tarmac day after day. We learn the hard way that we don't tell our families when we're coming home because it isn't going to happen.
War or no war, in the Navy, we are going to suffer through deployments. It's a fact of life. If you didn't know that war was a possibility, or that war was going to cause a hardship when you signed up, well, your bust.
For those of us who have been part of the volunteer armed forces era, we knew what we were getting into, even though we never thought it may happen. But the military has always been the military, the government has always been the government, and neither of them will ever change. Well, I recant that. My son is in the Navy now, and from what I understand, things are a lot easier than they were 20 years ago, so there are some changes.
So, you are right in the respect that you can express your opinion, and I'm glad you did. But I hope you don't carry that around with you, because it's going to eat you alive, and for something that isn't going to change, and something that you won't get changed, is it worth taking your mind off the mission, and risking the lives of others, or not being able to take care of your Marine?
Let it go… We signed up for this…

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