In Afghanistan and Iraq, there is something known as "the wire." You 're either in it or your out of it. The wire is your post, your duty station and your location in a foreign country. Inside the wire you have your appointed gyms, chow halls, latrine, and where all your daily work will consist of. Souly depending on your MOS. When your not deployed, your place of duty is your duty station. Here you eat, sleep and train. Your time of enlistment is spent at your duty station. You are limited to life outside of this duty station. For our soldiers, they know nothing else.
Inside the walls of your duty station, access is restricted, of course, and visitors are usually asked to provide multiple forms of ID and have to comply with a random car search before entering if you 're selected. Through the gates, there’s a remarkably self-contained world. It 's surrounded by guards and not everyone is allowed in. It kind of reminds me of The Hunger Games community except were not out killing each other. Roughly a third of military families live on bases, with many more living just outside the post in the vast civilian life. About 100,000 military children attend on-base schools. Military families shop at discounted grocery and department stores, see dedicated doctors and pharmacists, leave their …show more content…
These systems are set in place to help soldiers transition. It allows them to hold a full time job and attend military training one weekend a month. So they don’t completely let go of the military life, they still get to keep their uniforms and majority of their gear. They make you feel apart of the organization and it lets you relate to those around you. So if you are having difficulties as a civilian, you could join back into the military right where you left off. However, if you get out of the service and do not do national guard or Inactive Reserve and try to re-enlist, you must start from the bottom
Inside the walls of your duty station, access is restricted, of course, and visitors are usually asked to provide multiple forms of ID and have to comply with a random car search before entering if you 're selected. Through the gates, there’s a remarkably self-contained world. It 's surrounded by guards and not everyone is allowed in. It kind of reminds me of The Hunger Games community except were not out killing each other. Roughly a third of military families live on bases, with many more living just outside the post in the vast civilian life. About 100,000 military children attend on-base schools. Military families shop at discounted grocery and department stores, see dedicated doctors and pharmacists, leave their …show more content…
These systems are set in place to help soldiers transition. It allows them to hold a full time job and attend military training one weekend a month. So they don’t completely let go of the military life, they still get to keep their uniforms and majority of their gear. They make you feel apart of the organization and it lets you relate to those around you. So if you are having difficulties as a civilian, you could join back into the military right where you left off. However, if you get out of the service and do not do national guard or Inactive Reserve and try to re-enlist, you must start from the bottom