Rear Detachment--that lovely group of soldiers who get left stateside during a deployment who have the delightful job of relaying information down-range, dealing with mounds of paperwork, organizing new soldiers and getting the sent overseas, and handling the myriad problems that are presented to them by the wives of deployed soldiers. It's a tough and thankless job, but I quite frankly feel like they have got to be some of the most useless pieces of shit that were ever put on the face of the earth!
Case in point: A wife is injured. Not badly enough to justify her husband coming home, but badly enough that she cannot possibly take care of her children. She goes to the ER and gets a shot, some meds and an appointment for a week later to find out what is wrong. If her husband were home, he would be at that hospital raising holy hell to get her an earlier appointment. So it is Rear D's responsibility to take the place of her husband and go up there to throw some rank around to get her in sooner, or so I thought. . . Our Rear D decided that mowing her lawn would be help enough. WTF!?! The woman is basically incapacitated and they are going to mow her fucking lawn?? I am livid.
I'd be OK with this whole scenario if they had even tried to help her get an earlier appointment. They can't always move the mountain that is the bureaucratic nightmare of military SOP. But if you aren't going to try, how will you know if you can help?? This is the second wife this deployment who has had serious, debilitating medical issues. I'm not talking about a sprained ankle or a bad cut, but serious shit. I want so badly to beat someone to death. If this was their wife, what would they do to make sure she was taken care of? Wouldn't they want to know that their wife was physically capable of taking care of their children without pain and able to drive not tripping out on some crazy pain medication?? I do NOT understand why anyone would allow someone to struggle in this way and not even make an ATTEMPT to help.
This is totally fucked up. Our wives deserve better and soldiers DAMN SURE deserve better for their spouses and families. So this is for all the Rear D guys out there who are doing the bare minimum that they can: Get off your ass and do your FUCKING job! That's all I'm asking. I don't think it's asking too much, do you?
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Or how about the fact that some wives have to do all the research & INFORM them of facts? I think Rear-D is currently serving no purpose...at least they didn't in my case. Hope whomever it is is feeling better soon <3
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