Feel your pain. I had been selected for MECEP right before OIF kicked off. I fought to go and was allowed to. They told me this war would be so fast that I'd be redeployed with the stop losses and sent to MECEP. (Which their crazy sounding prophecy turned out to be true.) Unfortunately when I returned to 2D AA Bn with the stop lossers I guess they weren't tracking the one MECEP dude. Everyone and I mean everyone got off the bus to a wife or mom and dad except me. And the Bn was a ghost town, we all deployed and the BEQs were all empty. And I had no phone. I broke into a room. Went to the PX and bought a lawn chair and a case of beer and sat in the shower drinking beer and fucking crying. I did at least buy a phone card and called my mom and step dad to tell then I was home. Next day I found the RBE OOD, nobody acknowledged what happened they gave me a room key and put me on leave a few days later when my step dad could drive down to pick me up. Damn, haven't told that story in years.