In the military, if you don’t make promotion lists at certain junctures in your career, you’re done. Whether or not you make said list depends on your boss’s completely subjective assessment of your performance. My boss was a toxic diversity hire and I knew from the day he took command that it was going to be a rough time for the unit so getting a pair of negative evals from him was kind of like having Paul Ryan tell you that you’re a failure.
I thought I’d be more angry or sad or something but truth be told I’m mostly just relieved. I didn’t want to fight for this new president or this congress and I don’t want to watch the organization I’ve devoted tens of thousands of hours of my life to slowly fall apart over the next decade and now I won’t have to.
So I guess I’ll just take my four deployments worth of combat experience, go back home, play with my kids and wait... for something.
What's the feel like inside? Pro Trump or pro Biden?
Mostly quiet Trump supporters, but the Biden fans are really loud. Some but not all of the females are really pushing for speech codes etc. and there are a lot of black nationalists that really don’t bother hiding it because they can’t really get in trouble. It sucks to say it, but it’s getting truer and truer every year because they spend their whole lives being told everyone is colluding to fuck them over. Fewer and fewer strong teams as the combat vets get out or go to different units, less and less trust in the CoC. Promotion’s getting more competitive obviously so people are resorting to underhanded shit to get ahead.