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Jan. 5th, 2005 07:53 amYesterday, I went to a family briefing at the National Guards post. Mike has been slotted for deployment with the Michigan 1071st. Right now, we don't know if he's going - he has to go through SRP, a screening, next week.
About 10% who are called up don't go, mostly because of legal reasons; a felony conviction, an open warrent, a domestic violence conviction, or being currently on probation or parole. Mike has none of those, so if he was marked 'no-go' it would be for medical. Since he passed his last PT, I don't think that will be a problem, either.
So he'll probably go. He'll be serving in a General Support Maintenence Unit, which is even further behind lines than his 1075th Direct Support Unit. He may not even be going to Iraq, but probably. We'll know more in about 8 weeks, but nothing is final until the actual orders are cut. He expects orders sometime between April and June.
Then he'll train in the US, hopefully somewhere near, for 8 weeks. Then he'll go. They said that, when he ships out, to not expect to hear from him for two weeks to a month. That will be hard.
Everything will be hard.
About 10% who are called up don't go, mostly because of legal reasons; a felony conviction, an open warrent, a domestic violence conviction, or being currently on probation or parole. Mike has none of those, so if he was marked 'no-go' it would be for medical. Since he passed his last PT, I don't think that will be a problem, either.
So he'll probably go. He'll be serving in a General Support Maintenence Unit, which is even further behind lines than his 1075th Direct Support Unit. He may not even be going to Iraq, but probably. We'll know more in about 8 weeks, but nothing is final until the actual orders are cut. He expects orders sometime between April and June.
Then he'll train in the US, hopefully somewhere near, for 8 weeks. Then he'll go. They said that, when he ships out, to not expect to hear from him for two weeks to a month. That will be hard.
Everything will be hard.