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jmackenzie_15
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Having not been able to play army all summer, I was really looking forward to this years ARCON.
I got pegged as a c9 gunner, and all was good in the world.
However, being the only competent person with a comms course (seemingly) I was volunteered for company signaler.
Well now, im a private, took this comms course 7-8 months ago, remember nothing other than that I hate radios with a passion, and would sooner quit the army than sit in a CP all day long.
Thats exactly what I had to do, and I had no idea how to do anything.
the first four days,I slept maybe 1 hour... i managed to get everything working and the company online.... the company attack at the end went well comms wise.
Im proud of a job well done, but now I know why the comms guys I run into are always so pissed off and frustrated!
Good on them if thats the job they want to do, but I hated every second of it, and would much rather be in a trench somewhere or a #2 on a c6. Sigh.
I even tried to get switched off with someone else who had comms and didnt like being in the field and would rather be in a CP... there were a few of them but it didnt fly.
I joined an infantry unit to be an infantry soldier.... not to wear an infantry cap badge, sit indoors with several 522s strapped to me and stay up for days at a time living on coffee and yelling at people for breaking my radios.
I did the best I could despite not knowing a damn thing... I guess it went well, everyone was impressed with my work ethic or something and I was commended top soldier in my company, along with another guy, who worked his ass off as transport NCO... he was a corporal and had no idea how to do anything.He had it worse than I did, and he deserved it more than I, but oh well.
My biggest fear now is, that after ive done an "excellent job" as a signaler, ill get typed as such,and end up platoon signaler for every weekend exercise at my home unit and sit in a CP from now to the end of wars.
Anyone ever been in a similar situation? I loved my job being a rifleman.
I got pegged as a c9 gunner, and all was good in the world.
However, being the only competent person with a comms course (seemingly) I was volunteered for company signaler.
Well now, im a private, took this comms course 7-8 months ago, remember nothing other than that I hate radios with a passion, and would sooner quit the army than sit in a CP all day long.
Thats exactly what I had to do, and I had no idea how to do anything.
the first four days,I slept maybe 1 hour... i managed to get everything working and the company online.... the company attack at the end went well comms wise.
Im proud of a job well done, but now I know why the comms guys I run into are always so pissed off and frustrated!
Good on them if thats the job they want to do, but I hated every second of it, and would much rather be in a trench somewhere or a #2 on a c6. Sigh.
I even tried to get switched off with someone else who had comms and didnt like being in the field and would rather be in a CP... there were a few of them but it didnt fly.
I joined an infantry unit to be an infantry soldier.... not to wear an infantry cap badge, sit indoors with several 522s strapped to me and stay up for days at a time living on coffee and yelling at people for breaking my radios.
I did the best I could despite not knowing a damn thing... I guess it went well, everyone was impressed with my work ethic or something and I was commended top soldier in my company, along with another guy, who worked his ass off as transport NCO... he was a corporal and had no idea how to do anything.He had it worse than I did, and he deserved it more than I, but oh well.
My biggest fear now is, that after ive done an "excellent job" as a signaler, ill get typed as such,and end up platoon signaler for every weekend exercise at my home unit and sit in a CP from now to the end of wars.
Anyone ever been in a similar situation? I loved my job being a rifleman.