Missing the sandbox

**buckeyefan** · 11-06-2010, 04:55 AM

Anyone else here miss being in the sandbox? I've been back for a year now(time flies) and I am really missing being out there. There just isn't anything here that compares to being in combat every fucking day. If I was Army or MC I wouldn't have any problem but being a squid my command won't let me go, also the future wife would not be very happy. Anyone have any similar issue or am I the only freak out there?

**MikesyamahaR6** · 11-06-2010, 04:21 PM

My brother in-law is on his 3rd deployment, due back around Xmas and is homesick. He does it because of the money and cuz it proves to everyone here at home how manly he is and how he can handle his responsibilities..

I could honestly say if i was a lifer in the military, i could see being almost addicted to it... or just so used to it civi life would be boring.. or too different.

**buckeyefan** · 11-06-2010, 11:41 PM

Been there 3 times myself, but although the money is good that isn't my reason for going nor is showing everyone how tough I am. The reason I go is the bonds I make with the other guys out there. There are very few people who truly put their lives in the hands of the person next to them. The adrenaline rush is addicting and there is nothing like going on a patrol. Being home makes me realize how boring life really is.

**faber** · 11-07-2010, 01:55 AM

i wondered how it would be coming home....my old man was in nam and was really screwed up afterword; so i got to see that side of what it can do to a person. but, ive wondered about being addicted to the adrenaline rush and lifestyle so to speak....

it seemed like in that movie that came out not to long ago about the guy that defuses bombs, was the first time i got to see it acted out in a movie; the guy goes through all this crazy sheit over there and it is high adrenaline to where that is the norm....then the next thing you know he is standing in an grocery store back home in the middle of the night, just him and his old lady somewhere in the store shopping, with this elevator music playing....and nothing....thats it.
like going from 100 mph. to nothing....

i would imagine it would be hard to settle back in after being over there....

**Alicia** · 11-07-2010, 03:01 PM

^Hurt Locker.

**faber** · 11-07-2010, 04:35 PM

Originally Posted by Alicia

^Hurt Locker.

**Alicia** · 11-07-2010, 08:22 PM

<3 It was a good movie. Puts things into perspective.. at least it did for me. Another movie that did that was Forest Gump, with Lt. Dan. buckeyefan... are you seriously considering going back?? I know you said the other half wouldnt want you to, but could you if you chose to go back?

**Utta** · 11-08-2010, 11:39 AM

Depends on your job and how you choose to spend your time.

I just got to the desert and some of the folks her stay locked up in their room all day watching movies or sleeping. They don't socialize. They don't go out and help out at the hospital or anything. I mean, either way they look at it, they're going to be there as long as uncle sam dictates it. They may as well make it a good memory.

**AtlantaR6** · 11-08-2010, 01:10 PM

Give it a few months and maybe you will be the same way. Maybe not, and I've never been, but a friend of mine has seen some messed up stuff and definitely changed over there.

**buckeyefan** · 11-10-2010, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Alicia

buckeyefan... are you seriously considering going back?? I know you said the other half wouldnt want you to, but could you if you chose to go back?

Honestly I wanted to go back the day I got back in the States. I don't know if I'll ever be able to really describe the feeling of "switching it on and off" but Hurt Locker was a good start. My much better looking and saner half would hate me going over but as it stands we are already 5000 miles apart, I'm in Hawaii she's in Ohio. But I posted on FB that I wanted to go back and she said she couldn't understand but after I explained to her that I'm already so far away what's another 1000 or so miles, she seemed to be ok with it. It'd be one thing if I was kissing her goodnight, but I'm not. I'm going to try to get back but I really don't see it happening since I've already volunteered.