Cluster Fuck

This is the email we got about homecoming. What the fuck?!?

There has been a change to how Rear D is going to identify flights going forward. They are no longer able to match the Main Body # with the Mission/Ceremony #. Flights are backed up at some point in Afghanistan and as a result some Soldiers are getting moved to different flights than they were originally slated for. There is also severe weather which will cause more delays and changes. There is a decent amount of confusion so we need your help to try to keep people informed of what is going on. The notification process we’ve briefed will not change. Rear D will call families 7 days out and again 18-24 hours out.

It is imperative that you let families know they will need to rely on the Mission/Ceremony # given to them by Rear D to know for certain what flight their Soldier is on. The Main Body # is just no longer reliable. People will be confused if they talk to their Soldier and get a Main Body # from them – that is the only information Soldiers have to identify the flight they will be on. Please let families know that the Mission/Ceremony # they get from Rear D is ultimately the only number that matters.

As I’ve said before – LOW EXPECTATIONS! Murphy’s Law loves redeployment… Out do yourself on how low your expectations can be. If you expect the worst then you can’t get too disappointed!


So in other words, redeployment has become an even bigger cluster fuck than it was previously when they decided to send the boys home in some random order rather than by company. Now, somehow that random order has become even more random and no one-not rear-d, the CoC or God Himself-has any fucking clue who is coming home or when or on what flight or if everyone is even scheduled for a flight! And someone decided to send out this email and scare the shit out of everyone, let everyone know how inconvenienced by the Army they are really going to be, and set up all the POCs (and me) to start getting bombarded by calls from angry, confused and irate parents and spouses at zero dark thirty this morning! Assholes.

And we are supposed to EXPECT THE WORST?? Way to inspire confidence that our husbands will be home sometime this century! Because my idea of the worst is that you fuckers will leave my husband behind in Asscrackistan! I mean, I know that the CoC hates his guts so what incentive do they have to bring him home beyond not looking like even bigger fuck-ups than they already do?? My poor hubby already is stuck trying to hop flights to get to where the main body flights are leaving from because no one bothered to schedule the trip for him. So should I just brace myself for him NOT coming home?

Maybe we wives should usurp the CoC--take this shit over ourselves. Because at the rate things are going, my five year old could plan this shit better than those dumb fucks!