Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Does anybody else have a best, worst job you've ever had? A job that absolutely crushed you, but looking back you're like "man, that was a really valuable even though I wish it went differently" 😩😩😩 I was an aide while in the Army and worked 15 hour days for a year, but damn I fr got an education on people.
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whit ☕️
@whit
We’re you an aide in a deployed situation or on the home front? Either way, I’m sure it was intense & thank you for your service!
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I was an aide while stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX while the brigade trained for the deployment. So it was like military Office Space in a Catch-22/Vonnegut preparation context haha I was basically the “fixer” for my 700 person unit - if the boss wanted it I had to figure out how to make it happen 🫠
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So what happened once the brigade was deployed? You didn’t stay on as an aide? On the one hand, could see the value and efficiency in keeping an aide in place, especially when being deployed, but do they rotate aides regularly to provide experience to more up and coming officers? (I assume aides are officers?)
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
So you switch your job in the military basically every 12-24 months and almost never do the same job twice. So after I was an aide, I became an Infantry platoon leader during our deployment to Kuwait/Afghanistan. Way more fun 🫡
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whit ☕️
@whit
🫡 🇺🇸 How long were you in the military? I never served & sometimes regret it tbh. But it never crossed my mind when I was younger, which is odd because military history has been a passion as far back as I can remember. I consumed history books, war movies, even went to civil war reenactments in high school.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I spent 4 years at military college then 4 years on Active Duty in the Army. fwiw I sometimes regret not going to normal college, not moving to SF, not working full time in big tech, not pursuing music, and spending 8 years in cultural cryostasis 🤷 I feel you, but also think we should appreciate our paths too
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whit ☕️
@whit
Oh for sure. We are who we are and our paths are a reflection of that as much as they are an influence in shaping who we are today.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
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