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In the light of Tobit's recent anouncement, I feel the need to post this here. Now, it may seem out of context but the thread it was going to be in was closed. Anyways, don't turn this into a negative thread, we should use it as an inspiration for the rest of us. When Tobit anounced his plan to leave I felt like we lost a family member, but then I drew from past experiences and found out why Tobit will never really be gone. Here was the analogy I was gonna post in his thread that got closed.
While I don't share -EDIT'ed- enthusiasim, I will say that you don't have to leave. Saying that, even if you do, you won't really be gone to us, your here, your a part of the team, and more importantly your a part of the family. No matter what, you'll always be that much.
When in combat, a bond is formed between men that is still not understood, still studied to this day. When you are doing something that provides people you've never met anything they want, including the rights to your life and their rights to burn the flag you died for, you build a bond that is seldom ever broken, you become more than brothers, more than simple words can describe sometime. I feel that folding isthe same in some ways. Sure, were not jumping on grenades and avoiding mortars, but the sniper that is cancer and the insurgant that is diseases takes a few more people every day. Sure, most if them are just faces in the wind, but next thing you know, one of our own gets shot, and the fight becomes real for everyone in that AO.
Suddenly, it's not a statistic, is your brother who stould at your side and fought with you. This has happened several times here, some times it's a dirty wound, slowly killing off people over tens of years like myself and so many of us here have been diagnosed with. Sometimes it's more severe, a clean shot in the night that takes someone instantly, cancer stealing a loved one. Whatever it is, it's real, and it makes it real for everyone in that unit. Just ask MaxPC about Elena (sp), what you could call their own Plt. Sgt's daughter got hit, and look what it did to them. Now today it happens again to us. What does that mean to us? That means we drink water and drive on, because until this fight is done there will be more Tobit's, more Elena's (sp), and countless other faces on the wind. We push on and fight the good fight until the battle is won. We don't do it for the money, we don't do it for the fame, we're not trying to be heroes, were just trying to end a war that's been going on longer than any of us have.
I'm sorry if this is a bad analogy, but that's kind of how I see it. While I wish you wouldn't go, or atleast not sell your hardware, I know too well about fighting your demons, and too many time my demons won. After time they started effecting those around me and I was forced to seek help, a d that's all I can suggest to you, get help, because once your over this hurdle (that's all it is bro) you'll kick yourself for waiting so long.
Ask anyone at MPC, hell, go tell em, and I'm sure they'd come here and send you their wishes, because they understand what it's like to lose a squad member. From all of us here, and really from all folders, take care bro, keep frosty, watch your six, and remember, no one ever fights alone in this Unit. Well keep you in our thoughts and prayers until you've taken care of matters and won your own fight, at which time you better report back to duty and use that knowledge to lead the next generation of troopies.
Just remember, no one fights alone. In the Army, we fight only at 3:1 odds our side, and the same goes here, were here, and other medical professionals are available, it's never a bad idea to call for the Medic if you've been shot
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While I don't share -EDIT'ed- enthusiasim, I will say that you don't have to leave. Saying that, even if you do, you won't really be gone to us, your here, your a part of the team, and more importantly your a part of the family. No matter what, you'll always be that much.
When in combat, a bond is formed between men that is still not understood, still studied to this day. When you are doing something that provides people you've never met anything they want, including the rights to your life and their rights to burn the flag you died for, you build a bond that is seldom ever broken, you become more than brothers, more than simple words can describe sometime. I feel that folding isthe same in some ways. Sure, were not jumping on grenades and avoiding mortars, but the sniper that is cancer and the insurgant that is diseases takes a few more people every day. Sure, most if them are just faces in the wind, but next thing you know, one of our own gets shot, and the fight becomes real for everyone in that AO.
Suddenly, it's not a statistic, is your brother who stould at your side and fought with you. This has happened several times here, some times it's a dirty wound, slowly killing off people over tens of years like myself and so many of us here have been diagnosed with. Sometimes it's more severe, a clean shot in the night that takes someone instantly, cancer stealing a loved one. Whatever it is, it's real, and it makes it real for everyone in that unit. Just ask MaxPC about Elena (sp), what you could call their own Plt. Sgt's daughter got hit, and look what it did to them. Now today it happens again to us. What does that mean to us? That means we drink water and drive on, because until this fight is done there will be more Tobit's, more Elena's (sp), and countless other faces on the wind. We push on and fight the good fight until the battle is won. We don't do it for the money, we don't do it for the fame, we're not trying to be heroes, were just trying to end a war that's been going on longer than any of us have.
I'm sorry if this is a bad analogy, but that's kind of how I see it. While I wish you wouldn't go, or atleast not sell your hardware, I know too well about fighting your demons, and too many time my demons won. After time they started effecting those around me and I was forced to seek help, a d that's all I can suggest to you, get help, because once your over this hurdle (that's all it is bro) you'll kick yourself for waiting so long.
Ask anyone at MPC, hell, go tell em, and I'm sure they'd come here and send you their wishes, because they understand what it's like to lose a squad member. From all of us here, and really from all folders, take care bro, keep frosty, watch your six, and remember, no one ever fights alone in this Unit. Well keep you in our thoughts and prayers until you've taken care of matters and won your own fight, at which time you better report back to duty and use that knowledge to lead the next generation of troopies.
Just remember, no one fights alone. In the Army, we fight only at 3:1 odds our side, and the same goes here, were here, and other medical professionals are available, it's never a bad idea to call for the Medic if you've been shot
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