23 years in the U.S. Army as a 96B, Intelligence Analyst, late 1981 to early 2005. The first seven in combat arms battalion intell sections (S-2) in Germany, Louisiana, and Germany again, followed by three-and-a-half years at the National Training Center teaching soldiers and Marines about the equipment of expected adversaries; that included the prep for Desert Storm. Then a year in a brigade S-2 in Korea, another three-and-a-half (roughly) working for the III Corps G-2 at Fort Hood, and then another long stint for the Defense Intelligence Agency in the Washington D.C. area, analyzing the reports sent in by defense attaches. My last overseas tour was three more years in Germany, with an eight-month detached duty in Sarajevo, and I retired from a teaching duty in Arizona.
I reached the rank of sergeant first class, E-7, before discovering I didn't have what it takes to be a senior NCO. "Lead, follow, or get out of the way": I couldn't lead worth a damn, and I was too high in rank to be allowed to just follow ... so I got out of the way. It's a depressing thought that quitting was probably the best service I ever gave the Army.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
I reached the rank of sergeant first class, E-7, before discovering I didn't have what it takes to be a senior NCO. "Lead, follow, or get out of the way": I couldn't lead worth a damn, and I was too high in rank to be allowed to just follow ... so I got out of the way. It's a depressing thought that quitting was probably the best service I ever gave the Army.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.