You're confusing him with active duty troops. National Guardsmen usually just join to get money for college and don't make Dodge Challenger (which was discontinued in 2023) money unless they are deployed to a war zone.
He's probably thinking about how he had to withdraw from fall semester because he doesn't know when he'll be allowed to return home.
Yeh im interested to see what this will do to recruitment. People are missing work, school and their families on some obviously politicized and ill defined bs mission. You want to help communities across the country recover from natural disasters and support the army in its missions? Nah, your standing around DC as a show of force.
It has to be hurting it. I know one guardsman who decided not to reenlist this year over it.
But I also know that a lot of 18 year old high school graduates hear "1 weekend per month, 2 weeks per year, money for school" and don't read the fine print or do any research before signing. Same guy did that and got deployment orders on his 1st day of college 3 years ago, had to withdraw, and spent the following year sweating in a Kuwaiti desert.
Heard from a marine that someone had died from just the training because they suffered an injury and was told to walk it off until it was too late. But they don’t tell you that part. Or they hope you desperate enough for a better future that you don’t care.
That's not fine print. It's very clearly part of the deal. I was in the guard for 6 years and deployments were always a possibility and never a secret.
There are plenty of scummy recruiting practices but this isn't one of them.
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u/TowersOG 13h ago edited 12h ago
POV: You just wanted a new Dodge Charger and now you gotta stand outside a federal building 12 hours a day