As a Guardsman, I feel we are pretty stretched thin. I'm looking at my second deployment in the next twelve months and I've only been in a little over three years. Thats a deployment every other year. I really have no desire to spend my little time in the states guarding the border, which I am neither trained nor qualified to do in my current MOS, or just about any other MOS I am legally allowed to train in since I am a female (yet I've still been asked to volunteer several times).
Why, when we are obviously willing to train any Guardsman to do this job, dont we train civilians to do it? With the unemployment rates like they are, it shouldnt be hard to find people for the job. And with the Guard stretched so thin right now, what with the fighting two wars right now with record low enlistment and retention rates thing, why are we giving them yet another job to do?
If they send me down there, I'm letting the Mexicans in.
2006-10-27
10:52:21
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kittiesandsparklelythings
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