Lonely on deployment.

I’m currently on deployment with only one person that I actually know + others from our unit that I only know thru morale events.

The friend that I’m with just came back from deployment & it’s their second round, I’ve been super lonely here & as excited I was to go off-base, I end up just being invisible & nobody wants to invite me out. I thought I was able to rely on them but they only seems to be engaged with her other friend who is in a different shop with the unit that we are deployed with right now. It’s my second time not being invited out - my birthday is coming up which makes me think that’s gonna be forgotten about as well.

It sucks being an introvert with possible APD. Being in an environment with unfamiliar people that I have to force myself to work with everyday until another few months is absolutely killing me. They try to enforce the whole “family concept” bs here on deployments but you truly cannot mesh your personality with another person’s who you just simply don’t get along with. I’m over this experience. I came back to my room on Thursday before my day off & took my uniform off & just crashed on my bed into tears.

This experience would’ve been amazing if I was with my two best friends from my home base but unfortunately, they have a completely different MOS than me so it was already a no-go for them. I’m honestly ready to go home - being forgotten about & not being invited to anything has been frustrating as well as not being as social & outgoing as the co-workers around me..