My unit is deploying in a month. We have had several briefings recently about the deployment and all of the talking heads seem to be ignoring the elephant in the room; that elephant being that our brigade is currently at about 70% strength. At one of our most recent briefings our Brigade Commander jokingly made a comment about how we are at 90% strength and so he wanted those in the brigade who injured or ill to get better so that we can be at the required 95% needed to deploy and do our job..I have seldom heard so many snickers going as I did at his comment. You see, it's common knowledge among the soldiers that we are seriously under strength..and most realized that he was lying through his teeth.
Things like this leave a very bad taste in my mouth regarding the military. It makes it hard to sell the military as a career and a way of life when you see things like that.
Things like this leave a very bad taste in my mouth regarding the military. It makes it hard to sell the military as a career and a way of life when you see things like that.