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So this last weekend was my Reserve Drill weekend. The Colonel gets up in front of the formation and says that, "We are all going to Iraq. If you haven't been tapped yet, then be expecting it within the next month."
So throughout the day I go through the entire process of preparing myself for deployment. My husband is also leaving this year which, at first, I thought was a bad thing. I come to understand that if we are both gone at the same time, then they can't say to me, "You have to leave on 'this and this' month," and it would be like a month before he comes home.

So the next day, I tell them I want to volunteer to go instead of just waiting around and ending up not going at all. But when I volunteered they said, "We'll keep you in mind, but they really aren't looking at females for this deployment."

So, what the crap!? Now what am I going to do? Am I going to stay back with the rest of the females and then risk being deployed later in the year and having to wait another year to see my husband? Thanks Colonel, for raising my hopes and scaring me half to death all in one weekend!

They were asking for volunteers from my husbands battalion but thank god hes on weapons squad and its a fixed position, he wasn't allowed

yea, the army does stuff like that. like my husband is on a profile for the last year or so. this drill they did a PT test. he can't do PT at all. also they did a wiegh in. he failed. he's 3% over what he is allowed. so for the next 3 months he has to make weight, without doing any form of PT, if he dosen't they can kick him out, then after that he's being looked at from a med. broad to see if he can stay in.... rolleyes

Since I maded this post, we have PCSed to Alaska, hes at NTC now and he leaves for iraq in like two months.