Possible perspectives not appealing to many infantry soldiers, or any soldier, period - check with current overseas guys :
Painting rocks
Picking up garbage or FOD
Being on shift more than 12 hours (if that ******* is late one more time Im going to....)
Driving for the RSM (Ive heard you gain a lot of weight in that job, a lot of sitting aroundand waiting)
Toting water containers up hills
Wearing NBCW suits during exercises in the middle of summer (winter OK, nice extra insulation)
Paying $45+ for a carton of cigarettes when the other countries are paying $8
Being restricted to base when other bases get to shop and mix with the locals (not practical if Afghanistan, but applies elsewhere)
Being allowed only two drinks on your day off while deployed.
Not being allowed to mix with the other gender while deployed (although friends of mine with night scopes tell me that that this is not as much as a problem as people think!)
Having to practice for parades when its over 40 degrees centigrade out.
Having to practice for parades when its under 15 degrees out.
Having to practice parades period.
Having to practice parades with air force guys (lord help me!).
Having to practice parades with people from 4 or more different units (it takes a while to agree on some movements).
Having to run outside and salute a passing vehicle when you are trying to see if someone is violating the neutral zone.
Not being able to shoot the little buggers who lase you with penlights.
Waiting in line up while some civi with likely no security clearance checks ME to see if Im a threat, when Im on my way to a deployment.
Waiting in line up at the airport while the 30 cadets in front of me are told to remove their ankle boots as part of a security check.
Making coffee for someone because you are ordered to.
Driving 3 hours longer because the dipstick navigating is lost.
Walking 3 hours because the dipstick with the map is lost.
Being lost because you are the dipstick.
Being captured by foreign police officers because you got lost.
Being the dipstick in charge and being questioned by foreign police officers.
Accidentally walking into a foreign military department and realizing nobody knows you are there.
Meeting Russian spetznaz in the middle of local towns and nobody knows why they are there.
Being the poor ******* stuck with eating the corned beef hash MRE.
Eating US MRE's
Having someone make an MRE bomb and throwing it at you.
Playing 'dodg'em' with ninja throwing stars somebody bought while in Germany.
Having to listen to your buddy brag about the two girls he slept with in Bulgaria.
Having to listen to your buddy moan about the minor complaint he picked up from the two girls in Bulgaria.
Having to listen to some young punk come off a jump course and call you a 'leg' when your beret has more time in than he does.
Having Americans sing 'they're not even a real country anyway" and not knowing what the joke is.
Seeing South Park and figuring out why that ******* was singing that song.
Mistaking that Alabama-chaw-chewing-buggers coke bottle of tubacky spit for your own bottle of pop.
Working till 3 am to finish reports and then going out no patrol again the next day at 7 sharp!
Now to be fair, there's lot of fun things too!
