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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2011, 13:12:25 »
We did pre-deployment trg for over a year for this tour. None of it relevant to the work we are doing over here, but still a good time. Every tour is different, so just smile when you look at your bank statement and count down the days until you return to a civilized nation once again.
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2011, 13:14:14 »
count down the days until you return to a civilized nation once again.

The "iDeploy" app helps with that one........... ;D
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2011, 13:27:44 »
The "iDeploy" app helps with that one........... ;D

Didn't you use that one  ;)

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2011, 13:30:40 »
Didn't you use that one  ;)

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Didn't work so well as my return date was "Somewhere between tomorrow and whenever". That option is not available in the app.
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2011, 13:35:59 »
Didn't work so well as my return date was "Somewhere between tomorrow and whenever". That option is not available in the app.

Ah, you had the beta version then......
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2011, 15:11:52 »
There's no "us VS them". The CF will send who it wants to send. Ptes and Cpls will just have to go on doing what they are told to do and go where told to go. If it turns into a roto full of officers, that just how it is, deal with it and do the jobs you are assigned.

I'm sorry, I guess I haven't learned "suck it up" yet. Just because that's the way things are, doesn't mean we don't have cause to complain about it.

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2011, 15:54:50 »
There'd be no Ptes/Cpls on the tour if they didn't run a PLQ, and someone would start asking questions about why we have a 950 pers roto full of officers when the CDS said there would be opportunities for Ptes/Cpls to deploy post-Afghanistan.

Moe: I concur, that's what I've heard from the various pers that have come back from Attention. Granted, a tour is only as good as you make it out to be, but I can see a lot of people trying to jump on this one for the GCS check-in-the-box to say they've been to Afghanistan. They changed our training at the last minute to actually include soldier skills, because someone didn't think we were deploying to an active warzone and didn't need to cover things like convoy drills and have TCCC courses run.

Correction, no Pte's and Cpl's as Mentors/Advisors. Not to Troll.

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2011, 15:59:48 »
Correction, no Pte's and Cpl's as Mentors/Advisors. Not to Troll.

I have 3 Cpls in my group... some don't even have DP2 courses yet.

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2011, 16:06:51 »
I have 3 Cpls in my group... some don't even have DP2 courses yet.

Maybe they are "training aids" or drivers for ya.....
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2011, 16:22:07 »
Thats all I was getting at, there are numerous positions on the tour as drivers, tfc, supply, ect. Just to let the OP know there is a POSSIBILITY of getting A position without PLQ. However, like someone had said before odds are the positions will be filled by the original staff check. Then again, just to play the dark side of the moon here, my unit originally had more names on paper to send, then with the position cuts ect those pers lost their spot. You would think they would then in turn have first pick at 10% pool, but this is not the case. 10% went to new names entirely, just how the cookie crumbles.

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2011, 16:34:03 »
Maybe they are "training aids" or drivers for ya.....

Training aids.... perfect. I'm going to use that one.

I'd agree with you, Hurricane. Anyone on the replacement pool should have been given first shot, since they've already done the training. I think there was a little bit of Big R and little r politics at play since a lot of the replacements are RegF pers (that I've seen).

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2011, 16:45:48 »
Didn't work so well as my return date was "Somewhere between tomorrow and whenever". That option is not available in the app.

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #37 on: December 23, 2011, 16:50:08 »
Training aids.... perfect. I'm going to use that one.

I'd agree with you, Hurricane. Anyone on the replacement pool should have been given first shot, since they've already done the training. I think there was a little bit of Big R and little r politics at play since a lot of the replacements are RegF pers (that I've seen).

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Priorities change. The choices are not always as simple as what the lowest common denominator on the ground perceives them to be.

I don't expect NDHQ to contact me and explain every plan or change that they make. Neither should you.
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #38 on: December 23, 2011, 16:59:31 »
I'm sorry, I guess I haven't learned "suck it up" yet. Just because that's the way things are, doesn't mean we don't have cause to complain about it.
Last PLQ I was involved with included emphasis on MCpls being leadership role models.

I guess it's different outside the combat arms.
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #39 on: December 23, 2011, 17:04:47 »
......and you kept losing your phone :whistle:

Different OP......... :nod:
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #40 on: December 23, 2011, 17:30:55 »
Last PLQ I was involved with included emphasis on MCpls being leadership role models.

I guess it's different outside the combat arms.

I'd thank you not to comment on my leadership abilities without having even met me. If you have an issue on how I express myself here, feel free to PM me, instead of resorting to personal attacks in the public eye.

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #41 on: December 23, 2011, 17:35:25 »
I'm sorry, I guess I haven't learned "suck it up" yet. Just because that's the way things are, doesn't mean we don't have cause to complain about it.

What you don't know is he's actually Sgt Todd from 'Soldier'  ;)
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #42 on: December 23, 2011, 17:36:33 »
I'd thank you not to comment on my leadership abilities without having even met me. If you have an issue on how I express myself here, feel free to PM me, instead of resorting to personal attacks in the public eye.

He's simply basing his assumption on conjecture.

The same thing you've been doing for this whole thread.
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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #43 on: December 23, 2011, 18:15:12 »
He's simply basing his assumption on conjecture.

I'm sure you've heard what assumptions do in the long term...

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #44 on: December 23, 2011, 18:17:01 »
What you don't know is he's actually Sgt Todd from 'Soldier'  ;)

HEY Sgt "Todd" is the best role model EVER! Don't you remember when he taught the kid to kill the bad snake??? He learned the patented "Smack the boot on the floor trick" on his PLQ. Leave him out of this! :D

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Re: Private Corporal positions for OP Attention Afghanistan?
« Reply #45 on: December 23, 2011, 18:21:05 »
I'm sure you've heard what assumptions do in the long term...

You should take that to heart then.
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