[TADSLOS]

It's voluntary to join the Guard and Reserve. Don't join if you and your family can't financially and emotionally weather long deployments, otherwise, do your duty and quit whining.

[lkside]

...the people signing up for all this "EXTRA", and "FREE" money for some weekend Nat'l Guard duty are FULLY informed of the possibility of being called up BEFORE they sign. Maybe they should have taken their "guard money", and put it in a savings account for the time they do get called up. We had a local guy here get called up right after 9/11. It didn't take 2 weeks before his brand new 4x4 truck was out on the highway with a FOR SALE sign on it!

[dakine]

Your #4, well said...they enjoy all the benefits, now is time to hold up their end of the bargain...