Reply #21: After my daughter's deployment in Afghanistan [View All]

[ismnotwasm]

She reenlisted. (God I was pissed) They told her she wouldn't be deployed for three years, That she would be promoted and part of an elite, smaller striker brigade ( I don't know all the army jargon, but it was something like that) They were completely full of shit, her unit deployed to Iraq in less than a year and she fought her ass off to get out because she was a single Mom. She'd already missed her son's first year in Kindergarten. They completely and totally lied. She pulled her family care plan (which was me and my husband--My husband has MS and we weren't sure we could do another year)They then proceeded to treat her like shit. It's a very long story, and she can tell it better than I can. She had been in 8 and half years and never missed anything, my husband and I would take my grandson for any army shit she had to do at any time, including her Sargent's training and her Air Assault wings.

They lie, lie and then when they're done, they lie some more. They lie to get you in, and they lie to keep you there.