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Postby demonseed » Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:22 pm

Sounds like fun, going back to train in the CA desert that is. I feel your pain about being away for your fiance's birthday....been there before. I did remain lucky for the most part and only missed 2 of my 15 years worth of marriage anniversary dates, impressive isn't it?

So where would you be transferring to? How far away is the second nearest reserve unit?
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Postby betasoldier » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:34 am

I'm not sure where I'm transferring to yet, it all depends on if I want to change MOS's. If I change I can stay here in town. The nearest MP unit is maybe a 15-30 minute drive, I don't remember. Been a long time since I've been there. Just another southern Indiana town.

And yes, that's very impressive. I haven't missed anything but birthday's so far, so at least that's good.
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Postby Gunther » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:54 am

betasoldier wrote:I'm not sure where I'm transferring to yet, it all depends on if I want to change MOS's. If I change I can stay here in town. The nearest MP unit is maybe a 15-30 minute drive, I don't remember. Been a long time since I've been there. Just another southern Indiana town.

And yes, that's very impressive. I haven't missed anything but birthday's so far, so at least that's good.

What type units are in Terre Haute? What MOSes are you looking at?

Don't discount the traveling. As an enlisted soldier in the guard, after I came off active duty, my drive was brief; 10-15 minute. But after commissioning I drove up to 1hour 15 minutes away for drill. I know of some guys who traveled much further and they were enlisted. But most of those were members of 20th SF Group. :)
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Postby rhonnin » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:14 pm

Everything is at least 30 minutes away up here, I always had to commute 40 minutes or so to work so 15 to 30 minutes seems like a non-issue.
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Postby Gunther » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:19 pm

My wife drives into Boston each day for work. It is a 50 minute drive and fortunately her work schedule is offset from the busy driving times. She is usually on the road around 9-11AM and 12 - 1AM on days she works.
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Postby betasoldier » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:58 pm

31B, MP. A CID unit is moving into my building in place of it so I was thinking about trying to get into it. Good police experience, especially since the Army is starting to sign contracts with state/city governments to make MP and CID soldiers considered first for jobs. Hasn't gotten around to here yet, but most likely they will, at least with Indianapolis anyway. There's another MP unit in the building but they're small and frankly, having met the people in the unit already, I just don't like and/or get along with the people in it, so yeah. I could transfer to the guard and go into an artillery unit in town or they have an infantry unit in town, but I think they're disbanding or moving too. I'd lose my bonus if I did that though, so its not likely lol.

I haven't really looked at what's around yet, still got almost 2 1/2 years to look lol. Wait until after this semesters over and I'm not busy with school. That way it'll be easier to RST for another units drill to check them out. But yeah, Gunther we had one guy who drove to Terre Haute from ST. Freakin' Louis. That's a 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive. He made somewhere around $15 on a drill weekend with his costs to get here. He just refused to go through the crap he would of had to to transfer(officers and NCO's loved him) because he only had 1 1/2 years left before he could get out. He's gone now, good guy. Was the only infantryman in an MP unit lol, they never could get him to go to MP school. :lol:

EDIT: I'm mainly hesitant about switching MOS's. By the time its time to transfer I'll only have 2 years left. The thing that interests me most is going CID, but the it has a REALLY long school. Something I'm not particularly interested in doing at the moment, but.... I got time lots of time to make my decision. Things change.
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Postby Gunther » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:23 pm

You have some decent options there. Have you considered a job in law enforcement or possibly forensics? It's nothing like the TV show (CSI) :) If you have, then CID would be a good place to go. Yes, the School is long, but I'm sure the Army would have no problem deferring your military education until after your civilian education is complete. Although I interrupted my Civilian Education for a military school. It's still a viable option.

When you complete the CID training and have a Bachelor's Degree, Police agencies in Indiana and the FBI as well as other Federal agencies would be interested in you. CID on active duty perform a lot of undercover work. when I was in Bosnia, I frequent contact with a Chief warrant Officer 3 who was in his mid 30's, CID that operated out of Eagle Base, Tuzla. He had a female SSG and a male SFC that worked with him. when I went on pass to Budapest, Hungary in 2002, I bumped into those guys constantly checking out the tourist sights.

In the early 1980's the Army took a heavy hand to ending the drug use by soldiers in barracks. It had been rampant in the 1970's. I was told by one senior NCOs that for every 9 men in a rifle squad, at least five of them were drug users. My cousin who was stationed in Germany in 1974-75 used to take Heroine frequently. It really messed him up. He passed away at age 54; 3 years ago.

CID agents went undercover into random US Army units all over the world. Random Urinalysis testing and drug sniffing dogs were brought into the barracks at night and night and soon the specter of drugs disappeared, in part to the efforts of CID agents.

I'm sure US Army Reservists filling those slots focus more on training than real world missions, but if you ever get deployed to a combat zone or any other lukewarm spot on the planet, you'll be "in the shit."

Oh, by the way. Non-MP type soldiers hate CID agents and if discovered have beaten the snot out of them and in rare instances killed them. It is a dangerous life, not that any occupation in the military is not.
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