Comments on: Transitioning http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/ If you're not angry with me yet, just keep reading. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: haydn Davies http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/comment-page-1/#comment-11923 haydn Davies Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:36:46 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/#comment-11923 I read the frustration in the main topic above, most of the frustration can be read between the lines. Leaving the service is almost akin to leaving prison. You are leaving a way of life. There is a lot to content with and the only one who can really assist you is..you! I don't know how long you served, but I can only say that in a different army (British Infantry)which I served the feelings are mutual. I remember the hardest part being that of watching a junior clerk take my ID card and cut the corner off before placing it into the retired officer's documents for dosposal to archives...military establishments hencforth 'out of bounds'. It hurts! However having had one successful career from that of boy soldier to a ranker officer, I took pride in the fact I had done ok. I had always done my best. I set off on my new career, having taken orders from the Queen for 24 years, now I would give myself my orders. I must have given myself the right ones! All the disciplines that I was tought in the military whether it was paperwork or attention to detail. I run my business like a combat engineer park and it works! Waste nothing that you learned in the military, it is of emmense use to you, step off into civvy street with a smile and a spring in your step. Work for yourself; you never get rich working for others. My best wishes and good luck to you. Haydn Davies I read the frustration in the main topic above, most of the frustration can be read between the lines.
Leaving the service is almost akin to leaving prison. You are leaving a way of life. There is a lot to content with and the only one who can really assist you is..you!

I don’t know how long you served, but I can only say that in a different army (British Infantry)which I served the feelings are mutual. I remember the hardest part being that of watching a junior clerk take my ID card and cut the corner off before placing it into the retired officer’s documents for dosposal to archives…military establishments hencforth ‘out of bounds’. It hurts! However having had one successful career from that of boy soldier to a ranker officer, I took pride in the fact I had done ok. I had always done my best.
I set off on my new career, having taken orders from the Queen for 24 years, now I would give myself my orders. I must have given myself the right ones! All the disciplines that I was tought in the military whether it was paperwork or attention to detail. I run my business like a combat engineer park and it works! Waste nothing that you learned in the military, it is of emmense use to you, step off into civvy street with a smile and a spring in your step. Work for yourself; you never get rich working for others. My best wishes and good luck to you.

Haydn Davies

]]> By: Colleen http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/comment-page-1/#comment-11678 Colleen Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:50:28 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/#comment-11678 Type your comment here. Are you at Camp Victory now? Can you hepl me I trying to find a Major over there. Please email if you can help me col@writeme.com Thanks you for doing your job. Colleen Type your comment here.
Are you at Camp Victory now? Can you hepl me I trying to find a Major over there. Please email if you can help me col@writeme.com

Thanks you for doing your job.

Colleen

]]> By: feistner steven r http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/comment-page-1/#comment-11525 feistner steven r Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:47:30 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/#comment-11525 Sir , having been in VA offices all over the US , I understand your issue , Civil employees ALWAYS us that they are dealing with , the grunt the tech the leadership of our home agencies ..and yes I have seen some of those individuals , hit the deck or make headway out of a hatch . most times that individual has earned the disipline that they encounter , try to ease you inner frustr5ation in understanding that you will soon be one of them , A Civilian Puke , just like the rest of us ... O-3 S.Feis Sir , having been in VA offices all over the US , I understand your issue , Civil employees ALWAYS us that they are dealing with , the grunt the tech the leadership of our home agencies ..and yes I have seen some of those individuals , hit the deck or make headway out of a hatch . most times that individual has earned the disipline that they encounter , try to ease you inner frustr5ation in understanding that you will soon be one of them , A Civilian Puke , just like the rest of us … O-3 S.Feis

]]> By: Jack http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/comment-page-1/#comment-11484 Jack Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:41:47 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2007/02/14/transitioning/#comment-11484 Welcome to the wonderful world of the enlisted ranks, sir. That's how we're treated all the time. I guess you hit the nail on the head...they thought you were a junior Marine in need of detailed and highly structured instructions. Maybe the TAP office had some bad experiences with personnel in the past and developed their procedures accordingly, but it doesn't make it any more palatable to those of us who can act like adults. I retired out of the Air Force as an E-7 and I can't tell you how many times I had to deal with that type of mentality while transitioning out...very frustrating... The way you were treated…it isn’t atypical for mass enlisted functions. It’s one of the reasons I wish all officers were required to serve as enlisted for at least two years…I think both the enlisted and officer ranks could profit by it. Welcome to the wonderful world of the enlisted ranks, sir. That’s how we’re treated all the time. I guess you hit the nail on the head…they thought you were a junior Marine in need of detailed and highly structured instructions. Maybe the TAP office had some bad experiences with personnel in the past and developed their procedures accordingly, but it doesn’t make it any more palatable to those of us who can act like adults.

I retired out of the Air Force as an E-7 and I can’t tell you how many times I had to deal with that type of mentality while transitioning out…very frustrating…

The way you were treated…it isn’t atypical for mass enlisted functions. It’s one of the reasons I wish all officers were required to serve as enlisted for at least two years…I think both the enlisted and officer ranks could profit by it.

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