Grrrr@ people who try to make sure they never have to deploy and @ people who find out *oops!* they actually do . . .

I tell you what Tex, speaking for myself and the others over here who know Gus, It'd be just fine with me if he stayed in the states. He's one of those guys who, through obstinance or idiocy, (or his unique mixture of both), might very likely get the people he works with hurt or killed. Let him stay in the states and make us that much safer here.
Hey Pseudo, he's not geting attatched to MY number unit, is he? Does he know he'll have to work sundays?

No, he's going to a unit out of Meade. You guys are relatively safe from the GUS effect. Actually, I hope you guys are coming home some time soon... I was afraid that you might have to orient his unit to the job there, that they might've been replacing you, but I guess it's too early for that.
I think he knows he'll have to work Sundays, and that he won't be able to give Bible readings to local inmates... unless you count the other people on his Prophet team.

He got what he signed up for. (drives me nuts when I hear about people doing that sort of stuff). If you sign up for the wrong reasons then even while unhappy about the later consequences you have to do what you can for your unit and the Army. Just the way that whole contract thing works out.

You are not the only one who told him that he was likely to be activated. I'll say it: "I TOLD YOU SO!"

Wow. I'm sending up prayers to various gods for the team he's assigned with.

Btw, sup Pseudo

I have told a funny story to some of you in the SCIF:
My friend SGT Hot Kyopo, who was with several of us at DLI, decided to do some National Guard time after her ETS date came up. She wanted to enlist in her back home NG unit, in Missouri. But they didn't have any linguist slots or even MI. They did, however, have a slot available for an ASPHALT AND CONCRETE PAVING NCO. And since it was a SSG slot, Hot Kyopo finagled a promotion. She thought to herself, "Hot Kyopo gets a raise!" And, "I'll just switch my MOS back to 98G while no one's looking." Oh yeah, and she also thought to herself, "Hot Kyopo, there's no way this unit will go to Iraq..."
Needless to say, famous last words. Not only is she in Baghdad now, but she'll be in the summer heat of Baghdad or some other god-forsaken hellhole mixing and laying 500 degree asphalt.
The moral of this story: always worst-case-scenario it out before signing on the dotted line.