National Guard soldiers say duty keeps them away from home

Done that. Deployed twice , the time away from your family is the hardest

SSG, you need to chill out, she is a new soldier and away from home for probably the first time. What luxury is she taking advantage of? Housing soldiers called up for state or federal active duty is a responsibility of the government and command, who are you to second guess the Governor or Adjutant General of Michigan that decided this is the best way to get that done. I doubt very much they are stay at the Ritz; it is probably so real dive, ALL government contracts are given to the lowest bidder. People rarely see the hardship that soldiers face when politicians fuck over the people they are supposed to serve. Your rage should be directed at a city that did this to it's people while collecting Mayor and key leaders were collecting 100K salary. You should be upset that instead of calling National Guard soldiers away from their homes, jobs and families for a non-crisis with no end in sight, they could have created temp jobs for nearly 40% of people living below the poverty line. This is a community problem and should be handled by the community, where is ACORN and Reverend Sharpton when you need them, The National Guard should be keep

The negative comments from the Active Army aren't going away regardless of what you or any other soldier says or does. I am on my third deployment, the way 1st Army and the active garrison support units, that run the mobilization process, treat reserve component like shit is inexcusable; it doesn't matter it is your first time or fifth time deploying. They can talk shit all they want but my soldiers get themselves to drill, work, and school when they are not at drill, so who is the more mature soldier. My soldiers don't beat their loved loves, don't get DUIs, and aren't broke a week after pay day.

True statement. During the invasion into Iraq in 2003 all units had embeds and that was a problem with our unit because the ones we had hung out with the young troops and got their version of what they were doing and not what the command was doing operationally so they were two different versions of what was happening. So the way I see it is the journalist are not stupid they go with the young troops because they believe that is the true story but it is a misguided one through young eyes that do not understand what is happening.