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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

Fighting this battle and the stress over the last year and a half has sucked the life out of me. I had a major try to talk me

Into going to OCS but I have no energy to. I’ve been so stressed sometimes it just takes everything to wake up and go to work. I know I can be a good officer. Just starting from the bottom as a junior lieutenant may not be my thing. I may just want to hit my 20 and leave and go off to my farm and never fight again. Who knows.

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Mike Perceval's avatar

My heart aches for what you and others like you are having to go through...

But (Behold the Underlying Truth) God...

I came up to Captain through the hawsepipe myself, and I’m not given to saccharine motivational blurbs. But God... He is the ultimate reality that we all must deal with and,,if you are His:

Romans 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

God bless and keep you my friend.

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Benjamin Two N's's avatar

God Bless you sir, but please don't let your heart ache for me. If it wasn't me, it would be someone else. This is my calling in life. Maybe they would give in to the easy out and get the shot. I know a bunch of folks who did. I utterly despise and hate tyrants of all kinds. I'm stubborn as a mule about things I believe in and refusing the fealty test, aka the clot shot, was one of them.

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