Turns out it's been a minute since I posted last. Some highlights:
Ft Hood is a nightmare. The front gate should have "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." It's the place careers go to die.
Deployed again. That was about six months of reindeer games.
Got promoted to sergeant in September after months of my battalion and company doing everything in their power to prevent it - including inventing new requirements. They did that several times, actually. Branch finally came down and told them that yes, I was getting promoted on account of there was no legitimate reason not to.
The president said we'd be home by Christmas. Our commander posted it on Facebook, to which the Kuwaitis said "No the hell you ain't!" Six months in Kuwait later...
I got recommended for anger management because some soldiers in my platoon and an E-5 decided to concoct a story about me. The end result is that I have a bar on re-enlistments and the E-5 is now going to get my slot for the IO/SO schoolhouse. I don't particularly care about the bar, being that this battalion has thoroughly convinced me that I have no place in the new Army (I have this honor and integrity problem - I have them, you see, and that's not authorized), but getting that school slot stolen seriously chaps my ass. It's the difference between getting paid $60,000 a year and getting paid $250,000 a year. I wouldn't mind if he outperformed me, but all he did was spin lies after I blew him out of the water on the qualifications test. That whole debacle was... Well, I have nothing good to say about any of the involved.
Ironically, you see people driving worse than they claimed I did every day on Ft Hood. Go figure.
