Most of the people who are deployed to kuwait and qatar get all the same combat entitlements that people who serve in iraq and afghanistan do. They get combat tax exclusion, combat pay, hazard duty, hostile fire, etc..

YET THEY NEVER SEE ANY OF THE ABOVE! They get to live in nice pretty two man housing units called CHU's. They have air conditioned living quarters, nice showers, 24hr DFCS, etc.

You want a real deployment, go to IRAQ or Afghanistan. Live amongst the people. Live in sector for 2-3 weeks at a time taking showers out of a bucket, eating MRE's or motormites. I hate the same motormite meal 3 times a day for 13 days because it was all we could get. I guess some are just luckier than others. We hear it all the time when we would visit the large fobs and what not. Gosh.. our deployment is so hard. We have a/c, internet, huge px's, etc.. You have heard me use the term POG before.

I guess I shouldnt hate them because there lucky; however, its not fair. We all get teh same pay why not get treated the same and have the same living/fighting conditions etc. Thats why grunts hate the non-combat mos people.

Sorry for the rant. Your serving your country which is far more than i can say for 99% of the people walking the face of the earth.