Most of our guys took pay cuts when we mobilised. But we were cool with it. We really feel for the guys in the infantry and MP units that were called up and spent months guarding reservoirs, etc. thankless, uncomfortable duty, and for all that they didn't get "into the game" like we did.
One MP unit was stuck at Ft. Dix, NJ trying to mobilize for over two months -- the basic incompetence of Army clerks winning out. One reason we are beating up the reserves is that we have a mobilisation process that wastes a month to three at each end of the activation.
Imagine taking a 50% pay cut, and then it's to stand on an access road to a reservoir, chasing fishermen off, or worse yet to be jerked around by 70-IQ clerks in the wastes of South Jersey. That's what will drive people out.
d.o.l.
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