was months ago and nothing came out of it, they had no openings for him, not at his current pay grade and MOS’s. He thought about reaching out to SFOD-D to see if they might be able to help him out but he was afraid that Mel and others would find out. So he dropped that idea both actually, thinking about it more he realized going into the National Guard Mel would certainly find that out too, one of the things though he had never tried was to talk to her about it.
He was working off the assumption that over a year and a half ago when they first met he had told her he was in the Army once and she never asked about it nor brought it up ever again, so he believed she was anti-military, especially when she said who would ever want to be in the military.
Mel wasn’t naïve or stupid, she saw how he handled a weapon, people at the range talked to her about it and they told her it looked to them he wasn’t your average Soldier when he was there and there was something special about him. She knew he liked war movies and reading books about the military she wasn’t oblivious to his interest. Then she liked to snoop too, she was home by herself for a month before the baby was born and one day she was rummaging through the garage. John has always had a foot locker that he kept lock, anytime she asked him about it he was always very evasive and just said it was some personal stuff. That day she was rummaging through the garage she found it unlocked.
That being the case she felt obligated to look into it, obligated in this case meant curious as hell, what could he be hiding that was so bad he couldn’t tell his wife she wondered. She found his DD-214 and a bunch of medals and other awards which she read through, a lot of it she couldn’t make heads or tails from but she was impressed by the ones she could understand. She wanted to know more and so she made a copy of his DD-214 and put the original back, then put everything else back where she found it.
The following day she went down to the range and spoke to a few guys, who had served in the Army, she showed them the DD-214. She was not prepared for what they told her, according to them her husband was officially a bad ass, meaning that he was from what they could tell from the document he was Ranger and Special Forces Qualified with a bunch of tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was also in SFOD-D which meant he was in Delta. Which means that he was in the less the one percent of the highest trained members in the entire military and he was an Officer, it looked like he was a Major when he got out. She didn’t know what that meant either, “Was that up there in rank?” she asked one guy, “Well yeah he was a field grade officer, I mean he wasn’t a general, but it looks like by reading this he might have been if he stayed in long enough.”
“Does this mean he killed guys?” she asked another former Soldier. “Well,” he said. “Given that he was in all of these units and had all of these qualifications and all these deployments, I would say yeah. But only he knows for sure.”
Each man she spoke with was truly impressed by her husband’s qualifications what they told her he was by and large he was one tough son-of-a-bitch. They had never seen anyone else with all of these schools under his belt and a ton of medals to go with it. She had a lot to think about and take in with everything she was told. At a minimum she was very proud of her husband and everything he did for the country, she was incredibly impressed by his achievements and his service.
She couldn’t get over it, this was not the man she married, he was so laid back and came across as non-threatening and a computer geek. “Wow!” she kept saying over and over to herself, she
He was working off the assumption that over a year and a half ago when they first met he had told her he was in the Army once and she never asked about it nor brought it up ever again, so he believed she was anti-military, especially when she said who would ever want to be in the military.
Mel wasn’t naïve or stupid, she saw how he handled a weapon, people at the range talked to her about it and they told her it looked to them he wasn’t your average Soldier when he was there and there was something special about him. She knew he liked war movies and reading books about the military she wasn’t oblivious to his interest. Then she liked to snoop too, she was home by herself for a month before the baby was born and one day she was rummaging through the garage. John has always had a foot locker that he kept lock, anytime she asked him about it he was always very evasive and just said it was some personal stuff. That day she was rummaging through the garage she found it unlocked.
That being the case she felt obligated to look into it, obligated in this case meant curious as hell, what could he be hiding that was so bad he couldn’t tell his wife she wondered. She found his DD-214 and a bunch of medals and other awards which she read through, a lot of it she couldn’t make heads or tails from but she was impressed by the ones she could understand. She wanted to know more and so she made a copy of his DD-214 and put the original back, then put everything else back where she found it.
The following day she went down to the range and spoke to a few guys, who had served in the Army, she showed them the DD-214. She was not prepared for what they told her, according to them her husband was officially a bad ass, meaning that he was from what they could tell from the document he was Ranger and Special Forces Qualified with a bunch of tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he was also in SFOD-D which meant he was in Delta. Which means that he was in the less the one percent of the highest trained members in the entire military and he was an Officer, it looked like he was a Major when he got out. She didn’t know what that meant either, “Was that up there in rank?” she asked one guy, “Well yeah he was a field grade officer, I mean he wasn’t a general, but it looks like by reading this he might have been if he stayed in long enough.”
“Does this mean he killed guys?” she asked another former Soldier. “Well,” he said. “Given that he was in all of these units and had all of these qualifications and all these deployments, I would say yeah. But only he knows for sure.”
Each man she spoke with was truly impressed by her husband’s qualifications what they told her he was by and large he was one tough son-of-a-bitch. They had never seen anyone else with all of these schools under his belt and a ton of medals to go with it. She had a lot to think about and take in with everything she was told. At a minimum she was very proud of her husband and everything he did for the country, she was incredibly impressed by his achievements and his service.
She couldn’t get over it, this was not the man she married, he was so laid back and came across as non-threatening and a computer geek. “Wow!” she kept saying over and over to herself, she
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