This. OP described his duties as 12 hour shifts. This guy was a fobbit. Now there are fobbits who work their ass off and do great, important work. I loved them. I was one once. None of them describe their work as a 12-hour shift. OP also quickly put his service in the context of marking time until his commitment was complete. "Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in!"
Thanks for your service. And a sincere !Congratulations! on your success. But the title is link-bait which exploits the experience of those who had it much tougher than you. Stay in your lane.
Stay in your lane isn’t helping the situation. Also, while fobbit is funny internally and helps maintain the operator focused hierarchy, calling these names on the outside is distasteful. We need to be supporting each other in our travails in the civilian world and not turning our service into a pissing contest. He didn’t make up his service or lie about the unit he was apart of. If he exaggerated anything, it was building a niche site more than a startup.
I applaud the OP for getting shit done while on deployment and having the courage to talk about it. And if he wants to get a little bit more attention by using the Iraq word, than by all means do it, because he was “deployed to Iraq.” The military beat into us not to self promote and not to bullshit. Both are somewhat a hindrance on the outside, especially in entrepreneurship. Good on the OP for trying to both build things and promote them.
Meh. I did my time in Iraq. I had hard tours. The guy deployed like anyone else, stating as such is not exploiting anything. Get over the POG/Boot/Leg mindset.
Those of us in the military community are, and try to be, very precise about inferring proper context because it's a matter of honor and dignity in life and death.
Those of us in the military community have a saying: "Lighten up, Francis."
As for me, when I read the title, I immediately assumed that the author was stationed at a base in Iraq and worked on his project during his down time. Upon reading the article, this assumption turned out to be correct.
Thanks for your service. And a sincere !Congratulations! on your success. But the title is link-bait which exploits the experience of those who had it much tougher than you. Stay in your lane.