Not a bad 9-Month rotation so far with 1ABCT/1CD

4.5 months down...4.5 to go. The hardest part of keeping the troops motivated is selling them on "our mission" and why we are here. Sometimes I question it too behind thd door.

Overall, not a bad rotation....just a little boring. War muesem was outstanding.

Ha, I thought the war museum sort of sucked. Only one hall that had anything to do with the US presence in the war. If you didn't know better, you would not know the part the Army played in the war by visiting that museum.

As for the deployment? Cant say there are many positives in it.

And I wont even touch on the climate.....and I am not talking about the weather here either.

Are y'all both there? A friend just flew out today to join 1-7.

My old BN in 2-1CD went last year (?). Judging by their Facebook pics, it looks like they had a hard time finding Army things to do

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Ha, I thought the war museum sort of sucked. Only one hall that had anything to do with the US presence in the war. If you didn't know better, you would not know the part the Army played in the war by visiting that museum.

As for the deployment? Cant say there are many positives in it.

And I wont even touch on the climate.....and I am not talking about the weather here either.

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True on the war museum. Did my year there with 1-15 FA in 1HBCT 2ID. Was the salute battery NCOIC so go to travel to various bases for cermemonies and such. Played a lot of softball. Was very hard to get a pass to get out of area I so only went to Seoul a few times, including Muster and had good times there. Made a few trips to the Ville.

All in all I wasn't excited to be there as I had done two back to back deployments to Iraq in the four years prior so wanted to get some family time in. Wasn't impressed with much there. Training was hard to do and land was apparently a huge commodity as we had several FTXs cancelled the day of or day prior as we had no land to train.

About the best I can say was I made some really good friends and introduced to some awesome food. As a last gift I was deployed to Afghanistan 6 1/2 months after I got back.

Tango Mike, yes I am currently in S. Korea.

JABQ04, gunnery for a CAB is not too bad, you can get a ton of training done at Rod Range. We were there for a month straight, and got a lot of really good training out of it. As far as maneuver is concerned, that is another story, as the training areas we can use are only about 1km wide and maybe 4-5km long.....not even big enough for a tank or Bradley platoon. Plenty of opportunity for dismount squads to get after it though.

The food over here is awesome, when I go out I try to hit a different restaurant each time. My ROK SGM also takes me out to places the average American will never know about, and the visits to our ROKA partner units are always fun too. The ville sucks unless you are a youngster who thinks juicy girls are cool. There are lots of things to do, you just have to get off of Casey and go do them. Once you figure out the subway/train, or get the app, transpo is pretty darn easy.

One last thing, Korean Baseball absolutely ROCKS! Noisy, rowdy and nothing but a good time for the entire game. Much more enjoyable than our brand of ball.

Clary the gay,

Now it sounds like you love korea as opposed to countering my OP. Stop being so indecisive and stick to one side you bulgogi b*tch. Go drink some soju and keep hating life.

Korea is what you make of it. Stop being so winey and thank god your complaining about a war museum and not bullets flying overhead.

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Clary the gay,

Now it sounds like you love korea as opposed to countering my OP. Stop being so indecisive and stick to one side you bulgogi b*tch. Go drink some soju and keep hating life.

Korea is what you make of it. Stop being so winey and thank god your complaining about a war museum and not bullets flying overhead.

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Oh my, a private has found his way onto TexAgs. You need to learn sentence structure and how to spell. Go to GT improvement classes and square yourself away.

I know well what bullets flying overhead are like, unlike you. Come find me and we will compare deployment months and locations.

No, there are no positives about being here. Everything I do here, I can do better at Ft Hood. And NOT lose money doing it.

If you truly are in 1/1CD, come find me, as I do not hide behind anonymous usernames. Chances are I have chewed your ass for being screwed up at some point or another. I will square you away with improving yourself instead of wasting your money on juicy girls at the ville.

Typical nco banter. Way to incorporate your erb into your username tool. "Backbone of the army" my @ss. I bet you are that 12 year E-6 who hasn't done a thing since 2009 and falls out of platoon runs....that's if you are even on the line still. Probably bsb lames@uce......i know E-4s that could do your job.

When I woke up for work and saw the post previous to yours I was waiting for your response.

You did seem to do a complete 180 on your opinion of Korea but it's whatever. I made the best of it. There's some stuff I wish I would have done, and have told my wife I wouldn't mind going back now that I'm out and not have the limitations placed on me the Army had. We were pretty much stuck to Area I unless you had a pass, and due to manning issues and manpower only a certain amount of us were allowed to be on leave or pass so the numbers were pretty low as to who got a pass. (The whole "Fight Tonight thing").

Never made it to any baseball games, but we had a good Battery team and we'd travel by train to different tournaments. I enjoyed hiking Soyosan Mountain and the trails around and just outside of the Hovey gate. (Good place for squad PT). Also started to play golf and racquetball there too.

As far as training goes I wasn't impressed. We didn't truly do Paladin operations. We'd occupy a firing point and sit static for up to 15 days, as since the safety box was soooo small it would be basically the same fire missions over and over. We also weren't allowed to drive off post. We would meet at the MP and convoy to the wash racks by 1-72 and get loaded onto HETs and driven to the firing point. Pretty lame IMO. Too many alcohol related incidents, I probably wrote more counseling a that year than anytime else in my career. It seemed like every weekend I was getting knocks on my door at 0200 on weekends because someone busted curfew or someone got into a fight. I imagine things might be better when you go over with your brigade instead of individually. That has to help with continuity instead of constantly gaining and losing people and having to retrain over and over.

The biggest take away I had from Korea was never ever not in a million years go Heavy. Hell I asked for Polk after my tour to ensure I would go light. Hated being in a heavy unit.

Good luck with the rest of your tour there. Hit up Gloucester hill (another one of my regrets)

I am in the brigade, my last name is in my username. Easy to figure out who I am. Come see me, I am in the Valley. Don't act stupid like you do not know where that is. In fact, if you are on Hovey, I will be at the headquarters at 0545 in the morning if you care to come do PT with me. I will be the Soldier with the name tag saying CLARY. I do not hide. Why do you? See you tomorrow?


The above is for champagnepapi.

JABQ04, Yes, I make the best out of the situation, but when you are:

away from family
force to eat in the DFAC and lose BAS, which 2ID does not
do not get COLA, which 2ID does
can not drive or own a POV, which 2ID can
no leave (except emergency and paternity), which 2ID gets
and many more restrictions that I will not get into

Those are not positive things in ones life. You make the best of it you can, but still not a positive experience.

Clary I would but I'm on profile right now. It's funny because just as I'm healing up and profile is about to expire, i get a new injury! I actually haven't PTd or been to the field since NTC! My team leader is always upset with me!

This thread is awesome. Champagnepapi made me smile

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Yeah it went way out in left field. Still entertaining though.

Clary....were you the guy with the PT Badge sewn on this morning?

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Typical nco banter. Way to incorporate your erb into your username tool. "Backbone of the army" my @ss. I bet you are that 12 year E-6 who hasn't done a thing since 2009 and falls out of platoon runs....that's if you are even on the line still. Probably bsb lames@uce......i know E-4s that could do your job.

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Priceless. Trooper running PT smack on the Internet,then three posts later says he is on profile.

This thread delivers.

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You know that "trooper" is trolling... don't you?

No hate meant for anybody. Just bored here on the pen.

Thanks for the motivation sir!

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Typical nco banter. Way to incorporate your erb into your username tool. "Backbone of the army" my @ss. I bet you are that 12 year E-6 who hasn't done a thing since 2009 and falls out of platoon runs....that's if you are even on the line still. Probably bsb lames@uce......i know E-4s that could do your job.

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Priceless. Trooper running PT smack on the Internet,then three posts later says he is on profile.

This thread delivers.

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You know that "trooper" is trolling... don't you?

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Yep, and I am ignoring him.

66 years ago today north Korea invaded south Korea, officially starting the Korean war.

Can't believe I'm just now finding this thread

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Typical nco banter. Way to incorporate your erb into your username tool. "Backbone of the army" my @ss. I bet you are that 12 year E-6 who hasn't done a thing since 2009 and falls out of platoon runs....that's if you are even on the line still. Probably bsb lames@uce......i know E-4s that could do your job.

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Priceless. Trooper running PT smack on the Internet,then three posts later says he is on profile.

This thread delivers.

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You know that "trooper" is trolling... don't you?

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Yep, and I am ignoring him.

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I'm thinking he knows you and is pullin' your chain. Easy enough to find him via quick google/TexAgs search.

Look me up on instagram

Excellent trolling and smack talk!

Someone please make a Blue Falcon reference.

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Excellent trolling and smack talk!

Someone please make a Blue Falcon reference.

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Blue Falcon is Buddy F@#$%r

Just got here last month. It's my first time here, and I'm down at Carrol. Food is great.

Must be nice to be down in Carol!

Clary and I are here on the FRONTLINES putting boot to ass at Rod. Range while your frabicating fuel pumps and getting 4 day weekends....

Well i gotta go now, country concert starting soon at the golf course. Gunna get a round in before.

I fabricate nothing, Air Defender here. I'll drink a cold one for all you frontline fellas. It's not bad, but it's no Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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Must be nice to be down in Carol!

Clary and I are here on the FRONTLINES putting boot to ass at Rod. Range while your frabicating fuel pumps and getting 4 day weekends....

Well i gotta go now, country concert starting soon at the golf course. Gunna get a round in before.

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Happy 4th Papi, Happy 4th.

I'm headed to Korea, CRC, 2ID HQs, to be exact, in September.

Who here on TA is stationed in Korea (not a unit rotation)?

You lucky SOB. You are going to be living that POG life there....regardless if you are combat arms. CRC was small and isolated. Closer to Seoul than casey. You will have much more privileges than us rotational units on peninsula lock down and can't buy cars.