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Originally posted by queequek
The only reason my friend joined the National Guard was to pay for school.
He had no delusions about glory, honor or duty. A few years back, he examined his options and decided he was willing to trade one weekend a month and two weeks a year in order to put himself through college. Tossing sandbags in a flood or handing out food to tornado victims was a chance he was willing to take.
Now, he has been uprooted from his life as a hard working student and thrust into a war that none of us understands.
We are about to send him halfway around the world to a hostile land where the everyday citizens want him gone, and the extremists are willing to kill him in order to drive the point home.
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Did your friend not know what would happen if he accepted money from the National Guard and a war broke out?
I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for people who think that the National Guard is simply a once a month exercise so they can get a paycheck, and not a form of the military. I'm sure he didn't complain about the paycheck, and I'm sure he received some very good training in the meantime.
Sounds more like the money he spent for tuition was wasted, if he's
that stupid!!