HOME!!!
We left Afghanistan in Mid-September and flew to Manas Airbase in Kygrzistan. After a few days there, we moved on to Ft. Dix NJ where we would all beat the common sense out of ourselves.
Nine days were spent at Ft. Dix for the check the box mind numbing stupidity of the U.S. Army demobilization process. One would think that all efforts would be made to get us home ASAP. Not the case at Ft. Dix. No one would work past 1630 hours and the staff actually took the Labor Day weekend off while we were restricted to the barracks! We had to attend a briefing with a full bird Chaplain. The theme of the brief was reintegration and the Colonel asked the guys if they had anything on their mind. After an hour of unloading things that only an Infantryman can fully appreciate, the Colonel flat stated that Ft. Dix generally does not demob combat arms soldiers. And then we found out that the PDMRA leave many of us earned while serving on Operation Noble Eagle was denied. Welcome home assholes, Uncle Sam is done with ya, move out.
We finally left for home at zero stupid thirty on 2 October. When about 5 miles out from Geneseo, the Livingston County Sheriff Department escorted us to the village of Geneseo. At which point we dismounted the bus and marched through the center of town to the Armory about one mile down the road.
My son Ethan in the foreground and the boys forming up in the background.
SFC S marching his platoon with me in the background.
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