I'm so glad to hear someone else pick up one of my all-time-favorite rants :)
I have a theory on this...(a real one, too, not just some bitching).
For the last ten years, (ok, from 92-02) the worst you faced in the reserves was two weeks in Hawaii for your PT evaluation. It paid for school, gave you insurance, looked great on a resume...let's face it. It was all about "Playing soldier" like a bunch of kids, except the guns were filled with lead instead of water, and best of all you got to stay in the real world.
Now, I agree completely with you-- but I can see how people who joined up in the reserves pre-invasion were prolly not thinking about war as a legitimate possibility. You'll notice, all the people we read/hear about who are pissed off about having to go to war in the reserves signed up BEFORE 9/11, not after. Not an excuse, but perhaps a window into the minds.
What's worse is the guys that join the ACTIVE DUTY ARMY and are surprised when they go to war! "But I'm married" or "But I'm a girl" or "I'm trying to attend college!" Once a unit gets word that they are deploying you see people with suddenly bad knees and backs as well as women getting knocked up cropping up everywhere. It's sick.
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I have a theory on this...(a real one, too, not just some bitching).
For the last ten years, (ok, from 92-02) the worst you faced in the reserves was two weeks in Hawaii for your PT evaluation. It paid for school, gave you insurance, looked great on a resume...let's face it. It was all about "Playing soldier" like a bunch of kids, except the guns were filled with lead instead of water, and best of all you got to stay in the real world.
Now, I agree completely with you-- but I can see how people who joined up in the reserves pre-invasion were prolly not thinking about war as a legitimate possibility. You'll notice, all the people we read/hear about who are pissed off about having to go to war in the reserves signed up BEFORE 9/11, not after. Not an excuse, but perhaps a window into the minds.
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What's worse is the guys that join the ACTIVE DUTY ARMY and are surprised when they go to war! "But I'm married" or "But I'm a girl" or "I'm trying to attend college!" Once a unit gets word that they are deploying you see people with suddenly bad knees and backs as well as women getting knocked up cropping up everywhere. It's sick.
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If I know a pretty girl who is going to be shipped off to Iraq I can Knock her up and she will thank me.
Hmm..
This does violate the rule of:
221: it's not mine
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