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Operation Human Shield is in effect.

Must be the National Guard

Hey there.............wait, im in the national guard and fat like that. DAMNIT.

I did my 6 years in the National Guard. ..... after active duty.

well the one guy is carrying off a wounded solider. maybe the fat one ate his wounded solider so he could provide cover. its war, you have to make sacrifices

6 active here as well, just finished my 5th year in the guard and i think my 6th will be my last.

Probably not gonna do Guard or Reserve time after I get out. I plan on just retiring.

skip the guard. It was hard for me to relate to guys that had never been active duty. It actually cause a lot of problems for me when I was deployed with the National Guard to Iraq.. They just don't seem to have the same mentality.

Yeah I think the issue with the mentality there being that they probably didnt expect to be deployed outside the country. Whereas people enlisting active services know full well they could be deployed.

I would imaging the rhetoric among the Guardsmen was something of disdain, and resentment for being deployed.



I'm thinking about going military myself, probably shoot for Marines if I can and get in that last surge. Though I have to get back in order physically, and then I have to face the possible age barrier which is borderline now. I'll be 31 in April, so that's something I have to face.

Though I think the recruiters could be coaxed, seeing as there's a quota to fill for deployment in Afghanistan.

Actually, it was a problem before the two years before we deployed as well. It's hard to explain.. on active duty i would give a soldier an order and it was "Roger that, Sergeant" in the guard it's more like, "you got it dude" .... had to be there.

Ahh I see, they don't buy into the doctrine.

The movie Stripes comes to mind :)

Stripes.... Exactly. Just with out the nekkid chicks in the shower.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna skip all of that Weekend Warrior crap. I like being able ot tella Soldier to do something, and it gets done with respect. My wife thinks that I'm too hard on Privates because I don't say "Please" after telling them to do something.

do the armed forces have the word "please" in their working vocabulary?

Please....

One of the hardest transitions I had to make going from Military to Civilian. You don't tell a soldier please.. Please will get you killed in combat.

However, in civilian life, please definately goes along way....

Having started off in the civilian world, joining the Air National Guard actually worked out well for me.  I was fine with the structure and respect that was required in Basic and in Tech School, but now that I'm doing this just one weekend a month at my base I really enjoy the laid back atmosphere.  Flightline safety and TO's (technical orders...essentially a Haynes manual for F-16s and other systems) are still hugely enforced but you get a really civilian vibe even though we're walking around in uniforms and do formations occasionally, awards ceremonies, etc.

To each their own...but yeah...alot of the active duty guys (even from the Air Force) have differing opinions on the Guard lifestyle.  Some really enjoy it...some would prefer to still be active.

-gr0n