This deployment is sucking balls.

Don't get me wrong I knew there would be plenty of work to go around, I knew it would be hot, I knew that I would go through ups and downs.

But Holy Shit Batman
The last groups record airdrop month was 1.09million lbs. Our first month 1.6million lbs, second month 1.23million lbs, third month 1.4million. Our CW2 (who is our OIC) actually calls other shops in the AOR to get thier work so that we can do it. We are the smallest group in the AOR, why are we doing 70% of the workload? When I say work don't think I mean paper pushing or guard duty. I mean heres 60-100 pallets of MRE/UGRE/H2O pick it up by hand and restack it so it will fit. The first month we worked 12 hour days and got only one day off, my hands are so fucked up from making knots and tying rope that it hurts to make a fist, and my hands hurt when I wake up in the morning.

I thought I was going with a good group of guys that I had mostly known for a long time. Now I realize that I had mostly dealt with them one weekend a month and 3 weeks a year, not long enough to get to really know somebody. I have kind of an abbrasive personality, but all my friends know that I'm the guy to call when you really need a good friend. I don't think anyone here is going to realize that, everyone has gone and formed thier own little clicks and with only 20 people it sucks to be the first one to sit down at lunch at literally an empty table and have NO ONE come sit with you. I mean I'm a pretty nice guy I just tend to be a bit of a smartass.

SO anyway at this point work sucks I have exactly ZERO friends here, come to find out that even though I'm an E4P with plenty of time in service I will not be getting promoted here.

Here is the kicker
I can leave like 6 months early if I want to

I came on this deployment on a second extension so my contract will be completely over here shortly.
My options are leave early and fuck over everyone I came here with
Extend through the deployment and get out when we get back
Re-enlist for 3 years and get 1000$

If I leave early I was told that I would be barred from ever re-enlisting, which if true would be the only thing to make me reconsider leaving early at this point.

But I really needed to vent, thought it would help but I still feel like shit.

Why are they offering you the option to leave early under threat of not being able to re-enlist? It's like saying "you're eating dog food, if you want you can have some cake, but take it and we won't let you have any more dog food".

I say fuck em, you did your time. If you've got GI bill opportunities coming to you take advantage of those and move on.

Yeah dood, leave early.

If you are unhappy and in the guard...GTFO dude. Seriously.

^ This. You're doing yourself a disservice staying in if you're that miserable.

Yep, I've pretty much decided to leave and never look back. I am just fed up with the entire way that deployments are being handled and now that the army isn't hurting for people they just say fuck you on reenlistment bonuses.

Well I finally told my command hey, I'm done. I'm not extending or re-enlisting, you now have ten days to get me out of country and back to the states (regs). They have tried everything they know how to get me to stay, my first sgt is a cop and very manipulative, but I'm not a moron and I watch police shows and wonder how people can fall for this shit. Hes tried , I'm your friend and I don't want to see you make this mistake just extend, man the fuck up and do the right thing, this is a personal slap in the face think of how this will affect whomever. Straight out of cops shit, and once I realized that they were trying to manipulate me is when I stopped feeling at all bad about leaving.

This is way more drama than I'm used to, but it'll all be over soon and I can get back on with life. There is one guy here who is in the same position as me except he doesn't have the option of leaving, he is the one person I will probably talk to later.