"Intelligence Is Not Required To Be A Senior In The Military"
"This Is The Place Where Your Tax Dollars Go When D.C. Flushes Them"
April 27, 2010
To: Traveling Soldier
From: Soldier R, Traveling Soldier Correspondent Reporting from Germany
I would like to focus on some unfortunate soldier's stories for the second part of my writing.
One of my buddies' wife already headed back to the states because she was bored and alone. Another one is heading back soon for the same reason. The moral is that if you are not a motivated and interested military spouse, Europe is not for you.
When you come over here, you have to get out, see things and do stuff. The Morale Welfare and Recreation center and Education center offers tons of things to do and take up time for the entire family and you do not always have to spend money to occupy your time.
Now there are two of my good friends over here that will be without their significant other because they did not get involved. The furthest I have traveled is three hours away and I have had a blast.
The down side to being in the Army is that they can tell you to do almost anything and get away with it.
Morality and legality is suppose to factor in, but sometimes it turns gray.
Now, one of the guys keeps getting shoved around. First he's working upstairs, but then when our first line supervisor went to school, one of the other guys in charge tells him he has to work downstairs again.
The biggest problem with this is that the downstairs job is Monday through Friday and the upstairs job is four on and four off. So, last week he worked seven days straight and then they sent him back downstairs so he is not going to get a day off until next week.
Apparently intelligence is not required to be a senior in the military.
Again, they require us to sign for the things we use at work. That is fine, though the hand receipt is seven pages long, it still only requires one signature.
Now they want us to sign for the keys and our weapon on separate sheets. The amount of paper work is expected at a desk job, me and my friend [X] have decided it is becoming humanly impossible to keep up with all of it.
The Army is so focused on doing things by the regulations and the right way, yet they refuse to give us what is required to accomplish things the right way.
They complain when something is spelled wrong, but require us to type it in all upper case so that the spell check will not work.
There are simple ways around such difficulties, but why should each individual have to compensate for the short comings of the whole?
One of the biggest problems is that this is the only duty station I have ever heard of that does not use COPS for Military Police Reports.
And then they get upset when things are wrong. That would cut back on our overall paper, ink, stapling costs.
Just know that this is the place where your tax dollars go when D.C. flushes them.
I would like to focus on some unfortunate soldier's stories for the second part of my writing.