Ever heard of the Movie "Harold and Kumar's escape from Guantanamo Bay? Well I never thought I would be fighting to get TO Guantanamo Bay. CRC is at best a horrible experience for all involved. Man that place is an equal opportunity employer for the non deployed, broke, and incompetent of the US Army. If idiocracy had a minority Ft Benning has utilized affirmative action to the utmost extent. I have to digress from my usual witty fishy banter for a moment to recognize the triumphant failures of common sense in this place. Of course I can't divulge any great military secrets, or share any classified info (my job's not that important anyway)but I can definitely take pause to reflect on my experience at the Conus Replacement Center. I don't even know where to start. Must be the effects from the PTSD I incurred while assigned to that place. Truth be told I've been in Iraq with mortars falling like rain but this experience has taken a toll on my nerves. I guess I'll start with the Cadre. It seems as if the job requirement is that you must have a combination of, or one significant area of expertise in the following areas: Overweightness, rudeness, ignorance, incompetency, lack of ever deploying, or all of the above. I don't fault the cadre because it seems as if the job may have been forced upon them as a cruel joke. Who else would assign individuals to a location where they would have to deal with retired and active senior officers, NCOs, DOD Civilians/Contractors on the way to deployments, (if you didn't know Senior Officers and Enlisted are quite critical of everything by design)when they obviously are seriously ill equipped for the job.
It's as if the assignment gods decided that since these people can't, won't or just have never deployed we are going to make them deploy by association. As a customer service subject matter expert myself I can attest to the facts that the odds are overwhelming against them to think that they will be able to handle that kind of mission. I even made new friends here. Anybody knows that suffering through hard times together brings people closer. I made four new BEST friends. We call ourselves the disgruntleds. I know if a few more hours would have passed there could have been a postal situation (we would have wrote home about our problems LOL. It may even be a training technique designed to reduce your nervousness about your upcoming deployment. I have never in my life met so many people that can't wait to go put themselves in harms way. I asked one of my fellow disgruntleds and he said "I'll go anywhere and do anything as long as I can escape this hell hole" (btw he's going to Afghanistan to fight the War on Terror. Most likely he'll be enduring extreme freezing conditions, firefights, IEDs, and a whole gammut of other unpleasant things.) I won't really get into the details of what happened but lets just say I'm always right. I'm not the type of person to say "I told you so" (I just let you know before we disagree). I could go on but I'm just glad I escaped...
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