“If The Regular Civilian Population Could See The Shit That Goes On At Drum, People Would Flip Shit”

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To: Traveling Soldier
From: Pfc P - Fort Drum

Oh lord. Just another day in paradise here.

The last time I spoke with yall, it took 4 different congressionals to keep me from deploying. I assumed that with them crawling all over my unit they would give up and get me med boarded quicker. Which was farther from the truth than I could imagine.

Im starting to believe ill see the second comming of christ before I get the hell out of fort drum. If the regular civilian population could see the shit that goes on at drum, or I could get the truth out people would flip shit.

Ive seen my brigade chapter soldiers out of the army in 24 hours. That quick, honestly. So, why is it taking an upwards of 2 years for some people to get out with medical conditions.

Bear with me for a min. Little side story here. I went home to texas a few months ago for my grandmothers funeral. I spoke with my mothers friend.

Hes the head warden of a prison in Texas. He made a joke, at the time was funny. He said, "You know you could have gone into a police station, shot someone, gotten convicted, gotten a degree in prison, and been out in 4 years on good behavior."

It was funny at first, had a good laugh. Now thats kinda set in. Slowly pissed me off. Got me thinking. What am I doing here? Im looking to get out with 6 years in the army infantry. 0% college completed. PTSD up the ass. I hate people.

And a really short fuze. What did I, as a human being accomplish. Nothing.

I stand out in the middle of the road every morning pulling road guard, freezing my ass off with this beautiful ny weather. Cause that is all my dead mans profile will let me do.

Oh ull get a laugh out of this. Out of the blue last week. My brigade decided to weigh and tape everyone. Everyone being the people who are are dead man profiles and or med boarding.

Now think about that. Ive spoken with a few people about this. Just using common sense.

If your not allowed to do pt, without breaking your profile you will get out of shape. I was in great shape when I did pt all the time. 2 years of being broke. No pt. You get out of shape. This applies to 90% of us.

Some people just have great genes. The rest of us have to work at it. So knowing that they bring us this double edged sword.

EITHER A. Break profile to work out and make tape. or B. Dont and get chaptered out for being out of shape. Granted that will take 6 months of paperwork on their part. But I doubt they will care.

And I have seen the 10th mountain chapter people out for breaking profile, under failure to adapt or some other bullshit they come up with.

As of now no ones brought this to light.

But im waiting to see what happens.

When it does I imagine it will be a mass exodus. They will probably try to get us out quickly.

On the other hand some people say im overly paranoid. I blame that on combat.

I just dont put anything past the army or anyone in it. Nothing suprises me.

Well enough bitching on my part.

I love what yall do and hope you keep it up

- XXXX

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