Hardly “Weekend Warriors”.
All branches of the Reserves and the National Guard are no longer “Strategic Reserve” units, but are in fact “Operational Reserve” units. The Active Duty military does not have the support assets (and a significant portion of combat assets) to conduct combat (and a lot of other-than-combat) operations. IIRC, roughly 75% of Army logistics capacity resides in the Army Reserve. No fuel, no trucks, no bullets, no medical - nobody’s going nowhere to do any thing.
Thanks to Clinton’s “peace initiative” of the early 1990s. And, except for a brief build-up, propagated by succeeding administrations.
“One weekend a month, two weeks a year” was the tag line for time required. It’s now the remaining free time these Citizen-Soldiers have.
Been there, done that.
My primary point was and remains the issues the woman is complaining about are not a secret. They are well known.
Her husband made a choice. She doesn’t like the ramifications of his choice. So, she wants an entire gov’t entity to change because she doesn’t like the ramifications of her husbands choice.
There is no deep dark sinister secret in deciding to become a Weekend Warrior over Active Duty. She’s just angry about the downsides.
Again, these are not a deep dark secret. Her hubby made his choice. He has options if he and she doesn’t like the consequences of his choice.