Seriously, I can't even take this seriously anymore. My last duty station set a very low bar for the Army in my mind, but as fucked up as the normal Army is, shits even more ridiculous in Korea. Serious headpat to anyone who thinks that assignment to Korea is a real duty station. Biggest congo line of cocksuckers I've ever seen. The combat units all seem under-equipped and saturated with privates, double-standard doesn't do this place justice when it comes to enforcement of regulations, and it's absolutely aggravating seeing people walk around with IR (combat) flag patches like this is a real deployment just because some people from their unit are doing an exercise.

I wouldn't say that I'm depressed about how everything here is terribly fucked up; it's just feeding into my natural cynicism a little too much. The reaction of everyone who came here with me and has been in the Army for a second is the same. Disbelief followed by a sick sort of amusement and washed down with strong alcohol. I need to get the fuck out of this organization. No joke, I need to ETS right now. This is just ridiculous.

Whats spurred this little rant is that this week I begun my law enforcement training. It's an Army thing, so I don't hold that against them. Even though I have more road time, more cases, and am overall better at policing than 99% of the company I really can't complain about this alone: you need to certify at every post you go to. What DOES get to me though is the course content. The first day made me realize just how menial my job has been made and how gimped my authority is over here. Its more than a little disheartening to listen for 2 hours about how here they want you calling the desk before so much as taking a piss when you're coming from a traffic section where my patrol was loaded up with better equipment than state police had, I was responding to actual emergencies, and could enforce the laws fairly regardless of a subject's position. I just about lost it when they told us that people of a certain rank who are being arrested shouldn't be placed in handcuffs. Goddamn, US soldiers have gone out and raped 2 locals in 2 weeks- you'd think that this would be a good indication that maybe our security guard model of MP work in Korea needed some revision. This shit is ridiculous.