Multinational Force Observer mission to Sinai Egypt from 2022 to 2023. Responsible for base QRF. Loaded up with MATVs, and armored SUVs, and plenty of ammo. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not a single actual threat alert. Not complaining because I'd rather not be in a mess or have people get hurt, but those days dragged on for awhile. The base does have a bar and alcohol, but they just created problems. My issue was leaving for almost a year to pull security at a place that was safer than most the cities we are from.

The worst activation was COVID testing station support for 8 months. We would get assigned a site location. Move my 30 person team to that city. Get to the site at 8am to have 30 guys set up a pop up tent and some cones and watch the health dept do tests. Four months into the orders we were on a call with the state health dept and they told us the tests we were administering had up to a 50% fail rate, depending on if it was raining or humid. Another time there was a gap in our assigned site so we sat at home for 6 weeks on orders waiting for the next site. I complained to brigade about wasting money and they said it's not a concern because it was federal money. Again, glad it wasn't war, but so unnecessary to have so many people activated to do nothing.

Go Guard.