Originally Posted by
FlyBoyd
You would be surprised at the number of Navy guys on Individual Augmentation (IA) doing some odd stuff. From on of my yeoman (E-4 admin guy) manning a turret on a Humvee on patrol to a pilot in charge of (supervising only) an IED jamming and defusing unit. After asking around about this kind of involvement the response I received (Flag level) was "we (the USN) need to show involvment in this conflict to keep the money flowing (i.e. budget intact)."
The pain is being shared... I am not implying the Navy isn't pulling their weight... I just saw few of them on the ground aside from NSW folks. That doesn't mean that they aren't suffering through a rote in the Persian Gulf on a boat supporting the myriad of Navy aircraft flying missions into country daily.