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Puff Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Oct 2 2003, 2:59 PM EST
Joined: 07-19-2003
Posts: 49
How do you feel about reservists in the US military who are called up for duty and due to the monetary difference in their monthly income and the length of there call-up, loose their homes?
usahog Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Oct 2 2003, 3:03 PM EST
Joined: 12-06-1999
Posts: 22,691
I think it Sucks Puff... but I like them Signed my John Henry on that Dotted Line and many years ago to the same oath as them.... So I tip my hat to the New Revolution!!!! Thank your senetors and congressmen!!!

Hog
buffallo Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Oct 2 2003, 7:03 PM EST
Joined: 09-25-2003
Posts: 197
Reservists have a wider rang of abilities than your average soldier. What is it... 64 different jobs in the army, and 220 jobs in the army reserves? So, it makes sense that when the military doesnt need the job constantly, they leave it to the reserves.
But your right, on the flip side of the coin, they are the ones the keep getting extensions to their tours. My hopes and prayers go to their families. It is hard.

Ezell
Gene363 Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Oct 3 2003, 4:32 AM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,874
There is a difference between regular military and the National Guard. For the former the military is their carrier and their JOB. Members of National Guard have to have another JOB and a carrier to live on. When they are deployed they leave their families and homes like anyone else, but the also leave behind their livelihood and their carriers. They also leave behind a lot of business that may be crippled until the citizen solider returns. Not to mention leaving their home State without the emergency services the National Guard provides.

They volunteered but not to replace regular GIs. They chose to serve their country, many of them after serving in the regular service. The thanks they get include; second class equipment and second-class treatment. Now to add insult to injury, National Guard troops in Iraq are being extended to 365 days in Iraq, longer than regular troops, and they have been given so many different exit dates no one really know when they will get home. The extension is a bitter pill when they have completed every mission they were assigned and more.
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