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Show Brent Huff ct b r 2 09 That July, stopped dreaming, moved on. I felt bad, too becau e I had a c upl f guys that I felt were really good. I had a Marine come up to me and tell me he wa ad I was going, that I was the best platoon sergeant he' d had (laughs). He was a good Marine. He was one of the guys that I really thought would be up and coming and hopefully he did take leadership in the platoon. But I kind of doubt it. There were a lot of guys that I saw, they were the ones that were supposed to be in charge. I remember one guy, he had the demeanor, he was built the way that he was supposed to be, he was a lance corporal at the time, but the way, in a good situation, he would have been promoted to corporal, taken over a squad, because all the guys automatically respected him, and he's the guy that you would need to step up to make the platoon work. He just didn't have it. He was too buddy-buddy with the squad leader. It just wasn't there. So I didn't want to fight against that. JCW: Do you regret it, getting out of the Marines, at least? BH: No, I don't think so. I think I probably left about the right time. They did deploy again. In all honestly, they just did camp guard, so it's not like they did some huge dangerous thing. It wasn't like the first deployment. I feel really bad about the situation, though. My star guy, he was like a 300 PFTer, new lance corporal, the radio man, we put him up for every award. He was great. Christmas, just this last Christmas, so not like right. .. I've got to think about this now because the last few years run together. I got out of there in 2007 and they deployed at the beginning of 2008. Is that right? No, it was the beginning of 2009 that they deployed, because they're just coming back now. So it was like the end of 2008, I guess. I was talking to a bartender that's a sergeant at the unit now and just kind of asked him how 60 |
