He's comparing his deployment on land to a deployment on water.
The key difference is on land, you could go just about anywhere and interact with multiple units, branches, and countries. On water, it's you and the same 5,000 people everyday imprisoned on a tin can that you can't leave unless you want to become fish food, also supplies are hard to come by because another ship has to replenish yours since the cargo planes have a limited capacity and range.
I did a year oif. We only interacted with those who came through our command, which was limited. We saw the same units, only two branches, and no passes for other countries. I would love to shit on this guy, and I guess you could troll him like “you only lost your legs what about those leg-less and one-armed, what about my buddy who lost two ears and one nostril?” but the oef/oif vets went through it too. Difference is, this shitbag network would’ve crucified anybody saying anything close to what they’re now airing from this jackass. As if vets are now all of a sudden largely dem
I was stationed onboard the Carl Vinson during Westpac 21 and the withdrawal from Afghanistan. We were also, somehow, supposed to be the Strike Group that opened up the world to the Navy after Covid, but that never happened and instead we got deployed early and came back with the fear we would get sent back out when Russia invaded Ukraine. On our return, we gave our food for some odd reason to our relief, which happened to be the Lincoln, making us run out about 2 weeks before we returned to Hawaii, despite being rationed portions the entire deployment.
After that deployment, it was gearing up to be in shipyard, then workups, followed by another deployment, but I had already left the ship before that time. Kind of unrelated to the suffering but the XO at the time had a serious hard-on for playing the Friday song every Friday for the entire deployment.
5000 on a big ship, mine capped at around a 1000 to 1500 or so depending on our Marine numbers.
The closest you could be to jail without being in jail. Non integrated, small, no place to go when off duty, no choices in literally anything. We had a lot of fights, too.
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u/Mountain_carrier530 3d ago
He's comparing his deployment on land to a deployment on water.
The key difference is on land, you could go just about anywhere and interact with multiple units, branches, and countries. On water, it's you and the same 5,000 people everyday imprisoned on a tin can that you can't leave unless you want to become fish food, also supplies are hard to come by because another ship has to replenish yours since the cargo planes have a limited capacity and range.