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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'It hasn't been a good deployment' Mom describes her National Guard son's experience protecting DC
https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/national/national-guard-us-capitol-mom-deployment-troop/65-c90329a9-bb5a-4f2f-a43c-372176499a28WASHINGTON, D.C., USA Among the men and women now serving on the front lines to protect the Nation's Capital is a Maryland National Guard member who saw combat in Afghanistan.
He also works as a police officer and has a wife and young son waiting for him to come home.
Years after fighting in the Middle East, his current deployment has him stationed at the US Capitol.
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"I just got off the phone with him and he said some of the young men that hes with dont have enough money to buy some extra gear they might have so theyre wearing three pairs of extra socks to keep their feet warm," his mother said on Wednesday. "He went online today to order some more gear from Amazon that hes going to have delivered to my nephew who lives in DC and then my nephew is going to walk over some of the stuff.
Much more at link. NG says it cannot take donations. WTAF?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)do get paid, and deployment to protect their nation from RW authoritarian takeover is a great honor and service they can be proud of for the rest of their lives.
I doubt most would want their moms taking public comments they meant to be private. Sadly ignoble.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)former9thward
(31,798 posts)Their conditions are the responsibility of DC or the states.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)International disgrace.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I see those marble floors that drain away their body heat (how long could they technically lie there before temps dropped to critical levels?) as something the architect would do all over again. After all, he was asked to create impressively handsome halls, not the field barracks they apparently occasionally serve as.
"Some people are saying that we sleep in our barracks. While not untrue, soldiers in the Army can sleep pretty much anywhere. If we are in the field, we sleep in holes, tents, cots, vehicles, aircraft, or wherever seems good for some shuteye. I fell asleep in a wall locker once in training." E.J. Hirsch
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)And here we are.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)uncle ray
(3,153 posts)sarisataka
(18,197 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Its very understandable that many can be hurting for bucks. Some may be working at lower paying jobs with families to take care of. I know they signed up, and all that, but until you get up higher in rank you really have to budget.
Sgent
(5,857 posts)and got crap boots in the mid 90's -- still the same stuff from Vietnam although materials in boots were generations better by then. The only thing he wanted for his birthday after graduating boot camp and starting SOI was a pair of boots.
Its certainly possible that a NG unit which hasn't seen an active deployment may have crap or missing gear.