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hey, I've heard you can stay on for a second 6 months overseas, is this hard to do? i.e. if you request it what are your chances of being let stay? and would being away from your battalion for 6 months affect things there for you like would you come back an outsider?
Most positions for extensions are of a specialist nature..ie..Medic,Sigs,Driver,MP,etc.Most Bn Elements go out on full strength..However If a Bn who is forming up can't get enough volunteers,Men(plural) who haven't been overseas in a while can be detailed.
I'm not saying Its impossible to get an extension as an Infantryman,but you have a greater chance as a Corpsman. hope that helps.
Whats the wait like between joining your unit and going overseas? I've met ORs who went overseas within a year of passing out, but Officers seem to wait a few years, even longer if they go to college. Any idea why that is?
"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper"
Gen. Robert E. Lee
there are loads of Private vacancies - so therefore Privates will get to travel O/S quicker
and at the apex of the Triangle
there is only 1 Officer per platoon and therefore
they only get to go after a while
of course there are exceptions
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
hey, I've heard you can stay on for a second 6 months overseas, is this hard to do? i.e. if you request it what are your chances of being let stay? and would being away from your battalion for 6 months affect things there for you like would you come back an outsider?
cheers,
There's a certain Cpl. (mechanic) He's done loads of back to back trips! Spent Half his life O/Seas!
As Inf?? little Chance!
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mostly because the unit forming up still had vacancies. the CO went and asked for bods interested in staying on towards the end of the trips. a few weeks leave and they were back for the second six months. no major problems. some guys had to change appointments for the second six months but it just a case of filling whatever spots were still free.
An army is power. Its entire purpose is to coerce others. This power can not be used carelessly or recklessly. This power can do great harm. We have seen more suffering than any man should ever see, and if there is going to be an end to it, it must be an end that justifies the cost.Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I dont think I ever served overseas with Naval Cooks
I served with a couple of sea dogs on different trips
Good lads- except the smell strange and looked at me funny in the showers
(I dont know if it was a look of pity, disgust or lust)
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
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