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Military used to be a plumb deal, growing up I knew families where mom and dad were both in the National Guard, they did their one weekend a month, and easily doubled their income. But then the first Iraq war happened, and they started deploying the National Guard, and suddenly kids were left alone with both parents in active war zones, and that killed the deal.


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Found this interesting and read up on it a bit.

While war is a terrible thing, I appreciated that the irony wasn't lost on the National Guardsmen :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_weekend_a_month,_two_weeks...


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