First of all don't you think starting a thread with
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Originally Posted by badkarma11b
"Help SAVE MY LIFE!"
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is being a little bit over dramatic? I don't think the deployment will kill you. Just sayin' that's all.
Secondly, I can understand where you're coming from with wanting to keep the job. However as a commissioned officer I would expect you to be knowledgeable about USSERA and your rights. If not for your own well being then for the well being of your soldiers. Because that's what leaders do, they take care of their soldiers before themselves.
It is ILLEGAL for the sheriff's department to deny you employment due to a deployment.
Now going back to the second paragraph I'll remind you of one of our CORE VALUES you may have even heard of it it's something called SELFLESS SERVICE. The job with the sheriff's office isn't going anywhere the department will be there when you return home. You signed a CONTRACT to serve the USA and lead soldiers into combat. I may be wrong but I'll go out on a limb and assume that you incurred this obligation by having Uncle Sam but you through college and as repayment you are required to serve in uniform.
I think you're smart enough to see where I am going there? As a combat Infantryman and a Soldier in the US Army with nearly half of my 6 years in service so far spent on the receiving end of hostile fire I think you may understand while I am not sympathetic to your plight. I do have a small shred of empathy for your situation but you will survive. Freedom is not free regardless of what they're teaching students in college these days. It is paid for with the blood of PATRIOTS. Patriots like my brother SSG Tyler Pickett who was just KIA last weekend in Iraq, and 18 of my other brothers who were wounded in the same attack.
These are men I served with, and many of which I even trained and led before seeing them off because I am recovering STILL from an injury sustained in my last deployment. I feel I should still be there with them but I am physically unable and you know what, that fact KILLS me every waking moment of the day. Which is why SIR, I am going to give you the advice I would give one of my own Soldiers.
Man up, drink some ****ing water, and drive on!
I would expect no less from one of my men, and damn sure wouldn't except any less from an Infantry officer (which is an 11A for those confused by your s/n as I was myself).
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Originally Posted by badkarma11b
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I wanted to let that go but I can't. Your whole post to this grunt reads like a huge slap in the face to my service and the sacrifices of some of the best men I've ever known. That last statement reeks of pure laziness to me. If you were truly worried you would take the time out of your oh so busy day ( we all know how busy LT's are) and come back and read the forum. But you would rather be catered to I presume. I hate to do it but you appear to me to be another of the "myspace generation" officers that we have been seeing so much of the last couple years. Everything is "me, me, me" with no regards for anyone else. I'm going to stop myself before I get carried away here. All I can say now is shame on you Sir.