My boy relaxing in Iraq (he's a C-130 loadmaster)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeOeF2CCdFM]YouTube - Even at War Enjoy your job[/ame]

LOL where's he at in Iraq?

MeatyPortion said:

LOL where's he at in Iraq?

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AL UDEID I'VE GOT ANOTHER VIDEO ON THE WAY. IT'S MY LAST DEPLOYMENT VIDEO. I'M WAITNG FOR IT TO FINISH UPLOADING..

THE BRITS DO IT BETTER, LOL....
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOISlJ-dEgM&feature=related]YouTube - Hilarious Way To Marshall Jets[/ame]

Cool. I'm in Baghdad at the moment. I remember Qatar as being nice, humid but nice.

MeatyPortion said:

Cool. I'm in Baghdad at the moment. I remember Qatar as being nice, humid but nice.

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I WAS IN AFGHANISTAN FOR ABOUT 4 1/2 MONTHS ON MY FIRST DEPLOYMENT. HELL, I HAD FUN BUT I WASN'T REALLY IN A HOT ZONE EITHER.

I've Never Been To Baghdad... I Hear It's Rough. I'm Deployint To Kuwait In About 4 Months To Do An Ia.

This is my third. It's kind of a middleground between the first one and the second one.

r3dn3ckstyl3z said:

I've Never Been To Baghdad... I Hear It's Rough. I'm Deployint To Kuwait In About 4 Months To Do An Ia.

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Baghdad is ok depending on where you are.

If you're in Kuwait head to Arifjan for the swimming pool and sign up for MWR city trips. You get off the FOB for awhile and can take in the scenery (such as it is).

Yeah I'm A Carrier Flight Deck Guy But Somehow I Alway End Up Ashore, Lol...

Hey, you get more stories that way. Kuwait is fine if you're near Kuwait City, if you're up near the Iraq/Kuwait border is boring as hell.

i'M GOING TO CAMP VIRGINIA. WHERE EVER THAT IS

Oh snap, I've been there. Mob'd out of there in 2003. It's waaaay better than it used to be. It's fairly close to Kuwait City so if you can get your hands on a POV you should be set.

I'm Going As Naval Security Escort.

Sweet. Here's one of mine from 2005.

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r3dn3ckstyl3z said:

YouTube - Deployment Video

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Awesome. So you went to Greece and France on RnR? Or were those stopovers?

they were stops on the way home after being in the gulf for 7 months. We did and at month cruise. Before we hit rhodes we hadn't had a port call in 117 days.

Cool. I knew I should have joined the damn Navy.

nah i'm doing blue to green at the end of this enlistment. I'm gonna help take over Korea, lol....

Ha ha, why????

too much politics in the navy..... to make E-7 you better have a great set of lips and knee pads......

No kidding.

You going army then? What MOS?

trying to do the program where naval aviation jobs can convert to warrants in the army and fly helos

still waiting on the selection board

You should probably do alright with that. I'm pretty sure they're still jonesin' for warrant officers.

well i already have an associates and i've been through naval aircrew school plus i'm fully qualed in my current MOS/rate. Hopefully, that puts me over the top

I'd say you're in a good situation for warrant then.

navy is beggin for me to stay and i'm like put bars on my shoulder and we'll talk about it lol. They don't negotiate like the army. Oh well, their loss.

Hell, the army would've offered you a promotion before it even got to this point.

right now i'm an E-5, not eligible for E-6 at the moment. I'm carrying early promote evals. I go to an army recruiter and i'm like i wanna fly. He said alright well you qualified for Blue to Green Warrant program just fill out this paperwork and have your command do the final ok. It took me 7 1/2 months to get my command to sign off on it, lol. They pull every bit of bull**** they could to delay it or tell my why i couldn't and i just kept pulling up NAVREGs and MILPERMANS of why i could lol.....

I can see why you're leaving. I'd heard from plenty of buddies how hard it was to get promoted in the Marines but I thought the Navy would be more inclined to promote.

its easy to make E-4 but after that it all depends on your job. Right now, mine is 113% over manned. Most people retire as and E-6 in my job b/c none of the old heads never retire so they block it up for folks like to make E-7.