Many thoughts on my mind as of late, the wars continue and will for sometime. I would say that this is disappointing but I knew it would always continue regardless of who is in charge. Just take a look at the wars we have been in, other than Vietnam we really haven't left any of those places. Why should Iraq and Afghanistan be any different? I have mentioned before about how my summer job reminds me of the war, well the other night I was taking in the smells and it dawned on me just for a moment that I had missed the busyness of the war.
To be honest I don't miss my job in the Air Force or the deployments to Iraq, what I miss are the few friends I made and the honest discussions and fun we would get into. My roommate who I lived with in the states deployed with me twice and to get the stress out we would fight each other. These were real fist fights, honestly how would you react if you had to work with someone for 3-4 months straight with no days off and 12 hours a day? It would make us feel a bit better and then we would go back to our daily work, I don't miss the fights because sometimes they became a little too serious. But that's a story for the book, it's true I did burn a few bridges when I left; I never really made any friends while in the Air Force because I was outspoken about my job and the way I was treated. I don't hate the Air Force or military for what had happened, I only hate the people that mistreated me and got away with it.
I am glad that I don't have to deal with these people anymore, most of them talked so much shit about me behind my back that it makes me sick. I served over 500 days in Iraq and in the end I never even received my achievement medals from Little Rock AFB. This is how you treat people who served honorably and I sucked it up and took 4 deployments that weren't my own. They even knew I didn't agree with the war in Iraq but they couldn't prove it. So am I bitter?
Hell yes!
