No offense to Fort Drum lovers...but you can have it.

Question: If I am on orders for the "frozen over" hellhole based on the old "priority assignment" catch...can't I just get Branch to get me another priority assignment? Considering my NLT report date is 9 months from now, that's alot of wiggle room to work an assignment change yes? Oh and to be clear; I am aware that "priority" means deploying...which is not an issue, but where I leave my dependents is.

I half retardedly impatiently await a positive suggested resolution to a simple yet impossible by human intervented issue.

If you're on orders already, good luck!
You can swap with someone or sign up for recruiting. There's not a whole lot of options, unless you beg and plead and cry to the right people.

Even then it's IFFY..

I called the wizard...after like 4 e-mails. Told him I'll take any other BCT in the army over drum. "Luck of the draw" he says, told him I would have my retention guy run thru EDAS and get specific slots for 25B20. I figure he would be more than willing...if I did the work for him. Funny, I had the guy all wrong judging by his email responses, but on the phone he was understanding enough. Or my jedi mind tricks really do work.

I still wouldn't expect them to change your orders. Durned near impossible..

My middle name is pessimist...so I'll probably get it changed to Fort Toiletbowl. I will then hang myself with 550 cord dressed in summer pt's holding a canteen...cause it's hot in hell and I heard the devil is a runner. I am not at all serious about the last statement...hanging by neck is a p2 profile...."yes".

Having spent 4 years at Drum my first time there, and working on a second Drum tour, I think you're a bit over the line as far as Drum goes. Sure the post is lacking behind other major infantry posts (Lewis, Bragg, Campbell) but the unit's there are great. They've also put a lot of emphasis on their MWR program and have invested a lot of money into their outdoor program. You can take a class and be able to snowmobile/atv for free whenever you want if you just call up the adventure office. They got some good trips for outdoors types. I'm not sure if it's because they're light infantry so they can spend their budget better on soldiers, but the two brigades I've been in were well equipped as far as signal shit goes. Good luck finding a new assignment, worse case scenario if you end up at Drum look me up on global and you'll at least have a bde s6 connection there.

Been at Drum for 5 years.

It's not that bad.

Seriously. It's not.

spent 6 years at ft drum but that was a while ago. cold. VERY cold. all i can tell you is to take care of your feet because they are the first to usually go. good luck with trying to slither around getting out of there. usually if you come up on orders to drum, YOU AINT GETTING OUT OF IT. sorry.

The idea of going to Drum is slowly warming up to me. I know that any place is good or bad depending on you, this is generally true anyway. I figure I am going there to rotate to the desert again...so I'll just reenlist for another location asap. 10th Mountain is one of the better organizations still existent in the modern army...or so I've been told.

True drum is death..well maybe not death but its the worst place i know.......I was there for 4 yrs...i know everybody has their own experience and maybe the folks here were in good units...but if u happen to drop by 3 brigade..esp 2/87 infantry then i wish u luck......i had a horrible time in drum..not just me...about half the people in my unit at the time......but i guess u have to have a unit like that in ur resume to appreciate the army.....i'll tell..it is cold like a mutha....COLD!!!!....hey maybe its just me.....but anywhere in the army will do after being in drum....cheer up though it gets bette r when u leave drum....coz after u leave u are used to bs and u learn to adapt easily....

Drum is freezing. No doubt about that. I only spent a few hours there when I was on my way home from Iraq, but that was more than enough for my tropical sensibilities.

But it could be worse...you could be sent to Fort Lee.

I was never stationed there, but really the only negative thing I hear is that it is really cold. But for me, that is a deal breaker.

Before army life I lived out there. I graduated High School at Indian River HS in Philadelphia, NY (not originally from there though). I lived in housing on Post. I think the only downfall would be the cold. Watch out for Watertown cops. Maybe things have changed in the years I have been gone but they sure hated the army guys when I was there (hated them snagging their women), but that was YEARS ago! I wouldn't mind getting stationed there but PT in the dead of winter scares the hell out of me. Alex Bay is cool. Take the boat tour in the summer and go there for the 4th of July fireworks. I wonder if the Infentry guys still have Thursday Watertown "Cow" night.

If you think your Jedi mind tricks work on the phone you fly out to HRC to beg and plead, its much easier for them to want to help out a real person than somebody on an email or phone call