Duty, honor, respect

I’m Being Deployed

Be careful what you put on USAJOBS

Okay, Virginia wouldn’t look like this, or at least I’d hope not! Source.

I’ve worked for the feds for a “few” years and am now technically a reservist. Even though I’m paid by the federal government, I’m “treated” as though I’m military. I have had and still have a security clearance. That’s all I’m going to say about it. Because, well, you know, security clearance.

If it hadn’t been for good old COVID, God only knows how many deployments I would have been on by now. But with most areas on lockdown and various points in time, for the most part, our deployments have come to a screeching halt. I can’t say that I’m upset by that all things being what they are currently.

However, in the last few weeks, my spidey radar has been slowly but steadily increasing. I keep hearing the oath I took playing in my head. One part in particular.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.