I would like to communicate with MOS 27D specialists, I'm about to join the guard and would like more information as far as deployments in Iraq goes being a paralegal specialist.
2006-09-26 08:04:01 · 8 answers · asked by Paul d 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
i doubt it very much.
2006-09-27 03:15:57 · answer #1 · answered by Sunshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't speak for any other branch of the service, but paralegal specialists in the Air Force are being deployed to Iraq on 120 or 179 day rotations. My colleagues that have been there have worked in the Embassy and have also worked in Abu Gharib dealing with the prisoners of war. They're mostly active duty paralegals that do tours there, but there have been some volunteers from the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard who have gone over. P.S.: We had a chance to talk with the Senior Paralegal Managers from each of the branches of the service back in June, and the other branches of the service are sending a lot of paralegals to Iraq (but their rotations are usually 180 days or one year).
2006-09-26 08:11:58 · answer #2 · answered by sarge927 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, I would like to say that Army Paralegals are Soldiers. Regardless of MOS, a Soldier will execute the mission assigned to the best of his/her ability. I am an Army Paralegal and have deployed to Desert Storm and am preparing to deploy to Iraq again next month. I may not be asked to conduct direct combat operations, but I know I must travel a lot to do my job and may have to do all the same stuff an Infantry man does if attacked.
2006-09-29 11:27:22 · answer #3 · answered by Alexandra G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forgive me, I nearly died laughing.
No, you will not have to do any "raids" in Iraq. The chances of you leaving the wire are negligible. You will remain for your whole time in a protected compound. Indirect fire in Iraq from the enemy is painfully inaccurate. You are more likely to die of food poisoning than a rocket or mortar attack on any installation.
This is of course assuming you're actually deployed to Iraq, instead of staging out of Kuwait. You've chosen an extremely safe MOS that promises you absolutely no risk and no chance for personal injury. The rest of us who chose the exact opposite approach will see you either at the PX, the DFAC, or on some PT route (if you do choose to do PT).
Thank you for the chuckles.
2006-09-26 08:49:27 · answer #4 · answered by Nat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only reason i would see your MOS leaving the safety of the PX would be if you had to go out and document stuff, but no you wont be doing the door knocking, or IED hunting or any of the fun stuff that combat engineers get to do, they will teach you that stuff at BCT though, cuz you are a soldier first and a pencil pusher second, remember jessica lynch yea dont be like her, keep your weapon clean
2006-09-26 10:12:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a paralegal eve has to do a raid, I'll see you in Canada.
2006-09-26 08:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by DOOM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. if you ever had to, then the situation that you are in is worse than you can imagine. any job over is not a cake walk, but you won't be doing that. the worst thing you might have to do is defend your own position and anything during guard mounts.
2006-09-26 08:09:06 · answer #7 · answered by sapper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my husband has been to iraq twice already and he said it depends on what your unit is tasked with as to what you will be doing. You may not do raids, but you may pull security at gates, towers and security for patrols and convoys.
2006-09-27 00:59:12 · answer #8 · answered by haikuhi2002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋