“If you join the national service reserve, you will receive some basic training, just like you would in the military reserves. And then when your city or state needs you, you’ll get the call,”
Don’t volunteers at various charities and other organizations already do this? The Red Cross, Salvation Army, Civil Air Patrol, CARE, etc.
Indeed. We were in the coast guard auxiliary for over 20 years and the govt cut spending these last few years so bad we didn’t do much at all. We would use our own boats and aircraft and would receive reimbursement . Then they started knocking off patrols and didn’t want to pay us the claims so we literally we funding the government for our out of pocket expenses. If Teump gets in I will probably go back to being active again.