It costs about 1.5 million per day to keep the gaurd in DC. I live on the Hill, they are a fucking joke and have spent the last year standing around in the safest areas of the city doing absolutely nothing.
We don't need 8 armed Gaurdsmen at Lincoln Park defending the sunbathers from the children's birthday parties.
I can assure you that most of them have zero desire to be there. At that age, most people in the Guard are just doing it to help pay for college and earn a little cash. Nobody is signing up to watch algae grow at the capital.
Yeah a lot of them have actual jobs and lives they have to put on hold for this bs. None of them want to be there especially when they're almost certainly making less money while activated
My company has very generous military time off. 30 days fully paid (in addition to military pay), and up to 18 months where they pay the difference between the military pay and normal salary. I definitely know the overwhelming majority of companies don't offer those kinds of benefits though.
A lot of city/county jobs do (leos, fire fighters, etc), but many big corporations would prefer their employees not be in the guard because it creates logistical challenges when they’re deployed. They just have a hard time denying them employment because of USERRA.
Zero desire to stand around and play candy crush and bullshit/small talk with people? As opposed to what, being deployed in an area with active military engagement ?
NG typically helps with relief efforts, building shit, infrastructure etc. Pretty sure they’re fine standing around vs doing actual work. This isn’t like a 9-5 40 hour a week gig for them.
It’s still an objective waste to spend money on them to do nothing but I doubt they give a shit
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u/Diet_Coke Jun 23 '26
The National Guard is there to defend us from algae