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It seems I'm going to be going on an extended vacation. As some of you may recall back during the run up to Gulf War 2 I extended my enlistement in the Army's Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR) during a moment of patriotic stupidity. I figured since no one in the IRR had been called up during GW1 I would be reasonably safe from a call up and I would still be able to build points towards a military pension. It seems I have rolled the dice and lost.
They've told me that due to a sever shortage of my MOS I will be ordered to active duty after the first of the year and the deployment orders will be for 18 months. They won't tell me where it is I'm going (which seems weird to me as they normally do) but they have told me it won't be to Iraq or Afghanistan. I'm purely guessing but I'd bet on either Djibouti or Uzebekistan.
The sucky thing is I'm just starting to get interviews for a new job but there is no way I will get through the 90 day probationary period before I get deployed. Since I will be a probationary employee they can fire me at will and they will not have to give me another job when I return. That means I'm going to come back at the end of 18 months and I will still be unemployed.
They've told me that due to a sever shortage of my MOS I will be ordered to active duty after the first of the year and the deployment orders will be for 18 months. They won't tell me where it is I'm going (which seems weird to me as they normally do) but they have told me it won't be to Iraq or Afghanistan. I'm purely guessing but I'd bet on either Djibouti or Uzebekistan.
The sucky thing is I'm just starting to get interviews for a new job but there is no way I will get through the 90 day probationary period before I get deployed. Since I will be a probationary employee they can fire me at will and they will not have to give me another job when I return. That means I'm going to come back at the end of 18 months and I will still be unemployed.
On the up side you don't have to pay any taxes so it is like making $60k per year back home except you lose all of your personal freedom during the entire deployment.
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