“What is it good for?”
So my little brother fufilled his life-long dream and joined the Army National Guard recently. *heavy sigh* He just started boot camp in South Carolina today.
Before he enlisted my mother asked the recruiter about the chances of Mikey being sent to Iraq. She was told it was highly unlikely and that he wouldn’t even come up for deployment for at least five years. Yeah, right.
“The Pentagon is planning to send more than 14,000 National Guard troops back to Iraq next year,….
To draw more heavily on Reserve units, the Bush administration announced in January that it was revising rules that limited call-ups of Guard members. The previous policy limited mobilization of Guard members to 24 months every five years, but prolonged and large deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan led the Pentagon to abandon that rule.”
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