My deployment experience has been pretty interesting... I arrived in the middle of a deployment to a unit that has accomplished great things before I even arrived, I did alot of administrative type duties before I even became a platoon leader, I took over the best platoon in the Battalion from the most senior platoon leader in the Battaltion in combat, and i spent the last month and a half of the deployment sitting on a FOB, playing softball.
I do wish my time as a PL in combat was longer, but I realized that many platoon leaders do not even get the chance to experience that, and even more will not experience taking over a platoon in comabt. However, I am looking forward to the future of my platoon... many people will be leaving and I will also be getting a new platoon seargent. I will be able to basically start from scratch, and begin building the platoon from the ground up- building SOPs, building new Jr. leaders, train the new enlisted soldiers comming into the platoon, etc. Unfourtunately, about 3 months of my time left as a platoon leader will be block leave periods (June, August, December), 1-2 months will be a transition period where half my platoon will be leaving and a bunch of new people will be comming in, and the unit is going to change to 170th Mech. Infantry Brigade in (July/ September), so that basically leaves October, November, January, and February for actual time to train... it is just the nature of the beast I guess.
Well, the future is looking bright... and I am going to make the best with the time I have as a platoon leader.
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As a parent, I am totally stoked you guys are heading back to your home base. For us it's been 12 1/2 months worrying about our son. Closer to 3 years if you count all the worrying since he joined the Army and we knew he'd be going to Iraq. We won't breath easy until you are out of there. On that note -you still have a little time left so don't let your guard down.
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