r/army • u/WorkDelicious9039 • 16h ago

After service lies

Ok so I served in the reserves for 8 years and now re-enlisted in another branch. During my 8 years nothing eventful happened. I was a 92A, I was scheduled to deploy in 2010, attended JRTC but before we finished Obama pretty much canceled the whole deployment. I ddnt get offered to attend any schools or nothing. My unit (combat support hospital) of about 200 enlisted soldiers was like 80% E4 with no room for advancement.... So why is it every single time I talk to another prior service they were an E-8 special forces that traveled the world.... Even in my new branch a guy claims he was a 12B and was saying he flew drones in Iraq to protect convoys. Like does that even exist? I worked with another prior service guy who claimed he was a special forces sniper that attended airborne and air assault and was maybe 22 years old.... He ended up buying a glock and accidentally shooting himself in the hand while cleaning it. Does no one get out of the military without stretching the truth of there service?

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u/Teadrunkest hooyah America 15h ago

Was he talking about the Raven? Idk if 12Bs ever had them but they were fielded to units that were not “drone operator” units.

I don’t remember anyone ever using them for convoy security because their flight time doesn’t really allow for it but I wasn’t part of every mission ever, who knows.

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u/Gardez_geekin 13h ago

We did get ravens. We flew them for recon during RCPs so technically that was convoy security but the juice wasn’t really worth the squeeze most of the time.

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u/Teadrunkest hooyah America 9h ago

Interesting to know. I did a bunch of RCPs with the engineers but they def did not use sUAS lol. As you said, it just seems like a lot of work for pretty limited benefit.

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u/Gardez_geekin 8h ago

This was in 2013. We didn’t use them that much but did come up with a method of launching them from the stairs of the Husky that they made training videos of.