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Old October 30, 2003, 15:23   #1
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Leaving forever.
I'm going to be in Monterey, CA for the next three weeks doing predeployment training with the US Army Reserve so here's my leaving forever thread. I'm supposed to deploy for 18 months following New Years but they still haven't told me where I'm going. The powers that be did say "it isn't to where you think" so there's hope that I won't be going to Iraq. Of course even if I don't go to Iraq that still leaves Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia, Kuwait, or one of the former Soviet republics in either central Asia or the Caucuses.

I’ll be back at the end of Nov and I’ll be hanging out here through December. I’m also taking a trip to Turkey & Greece during the second week in December so I might be able to meet up with some of you if I have a lay over in western Europe. I’m going to be flying on Luftansa so I’ll probably be have some down time in Germany. Have fun while I’m gone.
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Old October 30, 2003, 15:24   #2
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Re: Leaving forever.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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Old October 30, 2003, 15:41   #3
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Old October 30, 2003, 15:50   #4
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Che: Of course I'm not leaving forever. I'm simply borrowing a tradition from counterglow.com where everyone who leaves for more then a few days posts a "I'm leaving forever" thread.
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Old October 30, 2003, 16:12   #5
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Old October 30, 2003, 16:15   #6
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Old October 30, 2003, 16:30   #9
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I'm just going to be spending most of November in northern California so I'll be back here at the beginning of December. I won't be shipping out until January but at least they'll soon be telling me where I'm going to be for the next 1.5 years.
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Good luck in everything that you do. Hopefully you get put on duty in Alaska keeping the USSR from crossing the water
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I'm envious of you Oerdin. You at least have some idea what your future holds. My guard unit is stuck in limbo for another month. Our last deployment was cut short for some reason and now we are waiting to see if we get a homeland security assigment, get sent to Iraq with a few thousand of our fellow arkansas guardsmen who are leaving in the next month, or wait here for the next round of deployments. And to think i signed up for three more years of this.

It's all together fitting that when I wanted to go overseas we stayed in oklahoma, and that I figure that since I have met someone that I can see myself getting married to, I will end up going.

Anyway, you have my army ako email address so keep in touch. Who knows, we may end up in the same fanatic filled funland sometime.
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good luck oerdin

funny to see how there are lotsa people leaving Poly these days. I think we're all getting old. Soon there'll be only the owners and old museum items like Ming or rah or AH.
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Man, that sucks!

18+1 months from the best years of your life wasted for no good reason, just because some moron cheated in the last Presidental election.

One army deployment around the age of 20 is something every man should go through, as long as it's in peace time or a volontary peace keeping mission. But being re-deployed at 25 (or whatever age you are) just because your country is wasting resources on a war of agression is totally crazy.

Stay safe, and don't shoot any innocent civilians just because they don't speak English (such things happen quite often). If you kill a man, his ghost will come back to haunt you in your nightmares even if he was a terrorist who was really asking for it, not to mention the agony you will go through if you later find out he was innocent.
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Out of the fire and into the frying pan, so to speak.

I wish you luck.

A lot of luck.

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18+1 months from the best years of your life wasted for no good reason, just because some moron cheated in the last Presidental election.
Be quiet man.. the last thing this thread needs is leftist crap. Of course leftists don't give a **** about the military. Or anybody but themselves for that matter.

Well good luck, Oerdin... I hope all is safe for you.
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