If the National Guard members of California were sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, then they became members of the U.S. military under the jurisdiction of DOD.
Did California pay the enlistment bonuses, the US, or a combination of both?
Anyway, let them keep the money. They earned it.
I’m the father of an Army Reservist whose unit was activated in October, 2002, and my son and a few others of the 299th Engineers, MRB, became among the first US soldiers into Iraq on 3/20/2002. Now that unit is being sent back to Iraq.
If you pay these people to enlist, damn it, let them keep the money.
Another way California Marxists screw the military.
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