- My chain of command may not want this put out, but here
it goes.
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- I am today preparing to deploy to the main show. We are
a Reserve unit that has stepped up to being able to support a mission which
physically "yes" we can do but "materially" we cannot
support.
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- In a few weeks we will report to our mobilization site
and begin the admin process, which is followed by the training prior to
actually going over. We currently have a platoon-reinforced size group.
Our mission is limited scale raids and mobile reconnaissance.
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- The current issues that I am concerned with include:
0 ñ Reinforced Humvees 0 - Body Armor 0 - Goggles 5 - pistols. Supposed
to be one each
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- The list continues and all the way down to a simple shemagh/balaclava.
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- Now for the kicker. I have personally spoken with my
counterpart at our gaining command and this is a person who sits on the
meetings. They not only have nothing for us, they are also short. The word
now is "What you come with is what you fight with."
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- So what are we doing to remedy this? Talk.
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- I currently have the men under my direct command out
pricing their own personal "bouncers," goggles, chest rigs, boots,
etc. Approximately $5,000 per person is being doled out for gear at the
individual level. This is not what an E-4 needs to go home to tell his
wife.
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- They are though ñ and the wives do not argue because
in essence "You only have one ass to save." How can our spouses
argue that one?
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- Our higher ups seem to try and reassure us that the gear
is out there and they are doing what they can. But from my past experience
(14 years), if you don't have it in hand before you leave then you will
not get it. The higher, higher ups want to silence this notion because
they say that it makes the service look like it is not supporting its troops.
Well, let's call a spade a spade.
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- This needs to be blown out of the water. The sooner the
better. Reason: As much as I love my wife and kids I do not want to needlessly
give them $250,000 in life insurance for this Christmas.
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- -Special Operator
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