[SpamCop-Social] Re: the guy who got his schooling free

[Sylvesterthekat]

"Miss Betsy" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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 > The medical treatment problem is inexcusable, but being away from
> their families, they could have expected.  Taking a cut in pay seems
> awful, but they have been paid like a second job for years.
> Theoretically, they could have saved some of that to cover being
> called up - the way that people are supposed to have money saved to
> cover being laid off.  I don't quite understand /why/ regular troops
> are not being sent to the war zone while NG perhaps fill in doing
> stateside jobs.  It doesn't look good to me that we can't wage a war
> without using our "reserve" troops.

LOL at the notion of saving. It's apparently an American disease that
people just don't save any more.

I always thought that National Guard troops were intended to guard this
nation if all the other troops got deployed elsewhere. I believe that's
how it works in the UK but I could be wrong. It also seems more logical
that the better soldiers are off doing the 'real' fighting.