“What a nasty, snide thing to say. I salute this gentleman for serving his country. None of us was born knowing everything, and this process sounds very confusing. At least he had the good sense to ask for help.”
Very well said! I salute him also and again thank him for coming to the aid of his country (quite literally).
Oh BTW, Bearslayer - Don’t let anyone put you down for being in the ARNG. The reserve component is serving just as much as the active component is. Our blood is just as red. Actually, it is getting hard to distinguish the active from the reserves.
The unit I’m in is a tactical MI unit. Still, very few of us have been downrange. It has been said here that if you want to deploy, you should have joined the National Guard. In fact, our unit has put a freeze on people going to Iraq or Afghanistan. My former team leader has been begging to go to Iraq for many months, but they won’t let him go. I personally feel that some of the jobs soldiers are doing, they should be done by civilians instead (like jobs involving paperwork, etc.). Only a finite amount of Americans will join the Army and Marines (and the other services). Have civilians do the non-militaristic work in garrison.