Comments on: ROK Army Finding Plenty of Recruits for Overseas Service, If Mom Approves http://rokdrop.com/2008/08/28/rok-army-finding-plenty-of-recruits-for-overseas-service-if-mom-approves/ Korea From North to South Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AL ZAYTUN - NII - KW 9 http://rokdrop.com/2008/08/28/rok-army-finding-plenty-of-recruits-for-overseas-service-if-mom-approves/comment-page-1/#comment-205074 AL ZAYTUN - NII - KW 9 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:33:52 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/?p=9164#comment-205074 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] ROK Army Finding Plenty of Recruits for Overseas Service, If Mom ... [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] ROK Army Finding Plenty of Recruits for Overseas Service, If Mom … [...]

]]> By: Getchuself Some Egic http://rokdrop.com/2008/08/28/rok-army-finding-plenty-of-recruits-for-overseas-service-if-mom-approves/comment-page-1/#comment-204187 Getchuself Some Egic Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:32:21 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/?p=9164#comment-204187 If American units in Iraq were filled completely by volunteers prior to every rotation, how would the statistical break outs appear in comparison to those sited your write up? The truth is that they wouldn't be able to fill their ranks. Not in infantry units and not in bath & laundry units. It is true that American Soldiers are quick to accept whatever mission is handed too them, but how many would be competing to go to Iraq. Sure, you get some volunteers for every deployment, but not 17.6 volunteers for each position. You crack wise about the financial incentive given to the ROKs, but I banked $90,000 in the year of my last deployment, compared to a much smaller amount in other years. The fact is the the US military is full of pansies who are too selfish to take their turns on deployment. Only 60%+ of the Army has ever completed a deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan. The majority of that is by choice, not by fate. How many officers and senior NCOs do you see in Yongsan, Pyeongtaek, and Daegu who've never deployed? When I in-processed through 1RC last year, a battalion commander from the 501st MI BDE briefed us on EUSA standards and policies. The jackass had the nerve to brag that he'd been in Korea for seven years. Shame on him, shame on people like him, and shame on whomever selected him for battalion command. If American units in Iraq were filled completely by volunteers prior to every rotation, how would the statistical break outs appear in comparison to those sited your write up? The truth is that they wouldn't be able to fill their ranks. Not in infantry units and not in bath & laundry units. It is true that American Soldiers are quick to accept whatever mission is handed too them, but how many would be competing to go to Iraq. Sure, you get some volunteers for every deployment, but not 17.6 volunteers for each position. You crack wise about the financial incentive given to the ROKs, but I banked $90,000 in the year of my last deployment, compared to a much smaller amount in other years.

The fact is the the US military is full of pansies who are too selfish to take their turns on deployment. Only 60%+ of the Army has ever completed a deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan. The majority of that is by choice, not by fate. How many officers and senior NCOs do you see in Yongsan, Pyeongtaek, and Daegu who've never deployed? When I in-processed through 1RC last year, a battalion commander from the 501st MI BDE briefed us on EUSA standards and policies. The jackass had the nerve to brag that he'd been in Korea for seven years. Shame on him, shame on people like him, and shame on whomever selected him for battalion command.

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