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Looks like my son is deploying again

Proud Marine Dad

Proud Marine Dad

My son was told repeatedly by his superiors over the past several months that he was not going to deploy because he is in the process of becoming a recruiter for a while.
Well, the Marine Corps in typical fashion tell him while he is on his way to Myrtle Beach on vacation with his wife and two kids that he is deploying to Afghanistan in July.
That sucks. His new son Tyler is 4 months old and now my son will miss Tyler's first Christmas and first birthday in January.
Yes, I know it's the military and that is how it is sometimes but to be led along to believe one thing and then having them tell you the opposite thing is BS, especially when you are driving to your vacation spot on your first day of leave. They have little to no tact sometimes.
 
Sounds like most of the corporations I've worked with over the years. "Humanity" seems to be a foreign concept these days.

Regardless, my best to him and your families - hoping for a safe, healthy return.
 
My respect to him and his colleagues, if I were thirty years younger I would be out there with them.
Due to a bad career choice I didn't join the Army when I should have. I often regret taking the advice I was given at the time.
It is hard to be "Diverse" when you know what is happening out there.
 
Did they say where in Afghanistan he is deploying? Any chance it is the Helmand province? If so, a buddy of mine is headed there soon as well.
I will be thinking of your son and wish him the best!
 
A) Tell your son thank you for his service and honor! I`m sorry he`s deploying but 10 yrs myself it happens.I got called back twice.But-- All thoughts and prayers are with your son. Semper Fi! Rich
 
Thanks everyone. He is a helo tech working on the black boxes and such I believe so at least he will be safe on a Marine air base.
His last two deployments were with the 1st Marines, 1st Light Armored Recon Bn. and looking for Al Qaeda door to door on the first deployment which was far more scary.
He is our only child so any of you parents can sympathize with what we went through when he deployed before.
 
Mike - I have long been a contributor to www.anysoldier.com - every batch I've made over the last several years I've sent a couple of care packages over to random soldiers. It would be my honor to give you 3 varieties of my sauce to send over with your boy. I know it's not armor plating but it sure does help MRE's taste better from all reports. Since you're local it shouldn't be hard to set up - I'll let you know as soon as the state releases my sauce and I have product to donate to the cause. ETA - will be within 3 weeks.
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Lucky Dog Hot Sauce said:
Mike - I have long been a contributor to www.anysoldier.com - every batch I've made over the last several years I've sent a couple of care packages over to random soldiers. It would be my honor to give you 3 varieties of my sauce to send over with your boy. I know it's not armor plating but it sure does help MRE's taste better from all reports. Since you're local it shouldn't be hard to set up - I'll let you know as soon as the state releases my sauce and I have product to donate to the cause. ETA - will be within 3 weeks.
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Very nice Lucky!! Kudos to you!!
 
Lucky Dog Hot Sauce said:
Mike - I have long been a contributor to www.anysoldier.com - every batch I've made over the last several years I've sent a couple of care packages over to random soldiers. It would be my honor to give you 3 varieties of my sauce to send over with your boy. I know it's not armor plating but it sure does help MRE's taste better from all reports. Since you're local it shouldn't be hard to set up - I'll let you know as soon as the state releases my sauce and I have product to donate to the cause. ETA - will be within 3 weeks.
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Thank You Scott, that is very generous of you.
 
He's off serving his country so that I can be here freely making hot sauce - his sacrifice is well beyond my generosity.

It's why I've been doing this as long as I've made sauce. :cheers:
 
I really cannot think of the right thing to say, but I feel the need to tell you that my family and I appreciate every one of our armed force members. What they do is unthinkable. I am sorry for the chaos this must be causing in your life and I wish you and your son the very best.

Tell your son thank you for his service from me and my family.
 
Semper Fi Mota. We used to have a saying in the Marine recruiting field. It was Semper Gumby. Everything bends, twists and most often changes. Yes, it was crappy to screw with him on day one of leave, but that is due to a sincerely lacking leader in his chain of command.

8411 is the designation for Recruiter. It is in many ways a most difficult job because your fitness reports and career depend on the yes or no of a 17 year old civilian and the parents who hate you even before you meet them, instead of how true the helo flies, the food is cooked, the rifle shoots, or anything else Marines are tasked with accomplishing. I recruited successfully for over 10 years.

I always respected the mom of my recruit. She is the most patriotic person in this Country because she gives the gift that she carried in her body for 9 months in order to stand for our freedoms. That gift can never be replaced, at any cost. And the loss of that baby, no matter how old, is the ultimate price for freedom and the worst pain a human female can struggle with.

God Bless you and your son's mother. Your son will rely on, and fall back upon, his training, no matter what BS has been told to him. As Marines, we adapt, improvise, and overcome... Or overwhelm as I like to say. Walk softly, carry an armored tank battalion, a regiment of infantry, and the shield of accurate artillery while close air support targets the rest...

I'm sorry that I cannot provide proper words of comfort, but your son, in typical Marine fashion, will get the job done and support other Marines doing what they are paid to do as well. Thank you for your service as well.
 
Thank You Marine. :)
My son's wife's parents were both career Marines, he was in 31 years and she was in 29 so it's nothing new to them I am sure.
 
USMC8411 - I was Army but sir, never were truer words spoken for any branch of the military. As a former Army recruiter I have to agree with you about the recruiting world too. I was only on mission for 13 months and then MOS recalled for this little thing called Desert Storm, you may have heard of it, but the recruiting world is a very fickle one as you say depending on the Yes or No or a Hormone driven 17 year old and the pressure on way or the other of his parents, most of the ones I dealt with were Vietnam Era.

MotaMike – It’s hard to see someone you love and care for have to go in harm’s way and the only thing you can say is “Keep your head low and your butt even lower” but take solace in the fact that he has been given the best training there is and he will automatically fall back on that training and it will see him through. I don’t know if you are a Christian or not but during my 2 combat deployments my men and I took great comfort in Psalm 91 which is known as the Soldiers Psalm. So much so, we would read it aloud at breakfast every day. After a week or so we were doing it from memory. To you son sir, I wish him a safe journey, a safe return and I would be honored to keep him in my prayers.

RM
 
Thanks RocketMan. Thank you as well for your service. I posted to help Mota. None of us is an island. And sometimes, providing a shoulder, or a post to lean on, can make ll the difference in this world.

Semper Fi RocketMan. Hooah too.
 
Marines are always in the ready! rahhhhh! even in a moments notice! yea it sucks when the word gets passed late but thats usually due to poor leadership and you got to bite the bullet! Sometimes plans have to get changed last minute due to new intel and many other factors that you will never hear about due to national security or compromising the mission from the intel gathered from the changing the ever changing battlefield , similar situation has happened to me last year and 2 days prior to leaving the mission was canned and deployment did not go even after i took time off to be with my family before leaving and having to say bye to my family back home..Let me reassure you that he will deploying with Marines that will have his back no matter what! no questions asked! Thats the great thing about the Marines! From the first day of stepping on the yellow footprints its pounded in to you! semper fidelis -SGT SILVA/USMC~
 
Absolutely Tony. I have never seen any branch of the military that cares more for each other than Marines.
This will be his first deployment as a POG as well. :lol:
He used to laugh at them at Camp Pendleton when he was an 0341 going through SOI and now he is one. ;)
 
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