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30 Saturday May 2015

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It’s a Navy town. When kids at church contemplate enlisting into the dirtside branch, their parents occasionally ask my input. In describing the components of the Army, I usually describe the National Guard as being more like a family. Whereas Big Army might rotate you somewhere new every 3-4 years, you could easily work with the same people in the same Guard unit for a decade or more. Holding a less common MOS, I could have easily retired from the Guard with 20 years without ever leaving my platoon–the only one in the state in which I am fully duty MOS qualified.  You get to really know and work with people over the years, sometimes deploy with them, and have very tight bonds that can last.

The punchline is that like a family, the Guard also has those batshit crazy people that you can’t really do anything about and you pretty much just have to wait for them to die off.

But sooner or later, everybody goes, not just the crazy ones.

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19 Wednesday Dec 2012

Posted by Venya in image, warfare

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TDY to Maryland, 1211 130

I gather there was some controversy over the design for this.  (It happened long before I cared about such things.)  I like it, personally.  There’s no advocacy, no judgment, no stirring words of patriotism or condemnation–just the names of those who paid. Continue reading →

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