sundin13 said:
"How much money is wasted on this" is a good question. I don't really know how the National Guard is paid. Do they get extra money when they are doing this instead of doing whatever they were doing before? Where are those funds coming from and going to? What were these people doing before? Were they "deployed" for this or were they previously just hanging out in bases doing whatever it is they do there? |
My father was in the Arizona Air Force National Guard. He went to drill at the Phoenix Armory one weekend a month, and then for two weeks out of every year, he would be at Lackland AFB in Texas for whatever annual training they did there. The rest of the time, he worked at his regular job at the main Post Office in Phoenix, and was my dad. I used to get up with him when he got ready to go to his weekend drill. Granted, this was many years ago and Trump was just another rich philandering pervert who was regular tabloid fodder. That was in Reagan's time. And knowing this administration, these Guardsmen who were dragged out to perform litter duty and public intimidation of people who don't support Trump, these Guardsmen aren't getting half of whatever they may have been promised, if anything. But that's true of any military job. My dad had many promises, even those given in writing, broken, and it often took lawyers and even a personal visit with our Congressman to get the government to make good on them.
