afghanistan, army, civilian, contractor, deploy, downrange, iraq, Military, pack, soldier
In Military on September 19, 2008 at 10:48 am
Whether you are going downrange as a member of the military or a civilian contractor, you should know by now that what you decide to pack (and the corollary – what you decide not to pack) can have a huge effect on your comfort level downrange. This article will mainly discuss what to bring on a civilian deployment but most of it will be very applicable to military personnel as well.
Some of these items will be obvious and some may not make sense until you actually use them but they will all be things that soldiers today have used, sometimes under austere conditions, which have made a difference.
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Career, contractor, freemind, Income, job, mind map, work
In Career on September 18, 2008 at 9:18 pm
If you’ve been reading this blog at all, you probably know that I’m a civilian contractor for a big defense contractor and I’m in the Army Reserves. I love my Army job but it doesn’t pay enough to give me the expendable income that I want to do some of the things I want to do in life. I can’t stand this civilian job. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the worst job in the world but when you add it all up, I don’t want to do this for any length of time. I need to look at what I’m doing now so I know how long I want to keep doing it and then take a look at what I can come up with to do next based on what’s available and what skills I have.
Let’s look at the job I have currently so I can see what’s good and bad about it:
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