I don't want to be a holdover anymore

Confirmed. I got diagnosed with PTSD when we were learning to zero in with our rifles at Fort Jackson 2-13th. Met a nice Major who got invested in my issue and said she'd do her best to get me home before Christmas (my chapter began around the first of the month, 5-11 EPTS) and wrote a profile for me to get at least 8 hours of rest. Profile went straight into the garbage while they held me at my company up until a week I got sent home. They were only giving a maximum 4 hours of sleep to us privates there and I was still there so I had to deal with it too. I had a nice connection with my platoon DS but the other platoon cadre thought I had quit and grouped me with the quitters. Don't get me wrong I believe I should earn my pay and willing to help with behind-the-scenes labor for my peers (setting up whatever the Sergeants needed to have to continue training the company) still in training but the constant berating is unnecessary. Only the company commander and my platoon DS kept me sane for two weeks.

Flash forward the whole of Jackson is being prepared to leave for Victory Block leave and us chapters get sent off to a holding company. This was a wildcard. We got a DS who was really cool and told us jokes and had an ounce of sympathy for those of us who wanted to actually join the Army but couldn't because of something beyond our control, or about 5 others who considered us all quitters and waste of oxygen. Our entire bay got overnight detail one night because three of us were keeping up with our exercise because there wasn't any PT and at this point it has been a week without it. Freezing our asses off losing sleep in just our ACUs sweeping for hours.

The worst thing is some of us who were there by unfortunate measure of luck had to deal with the psychopath chapter 15 who hurt others or were just huge cunts anyways. Probably the happiest i'd have been in a decade when my name got called telling me I was leaving in four days, to leave that nightmare behind on the 21st, four days from Christmas.

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