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Originally posted by Rodney
So she decided to find herself in the Army Reserve. Do something, accomplish something, get her life going. She signed up for -- I forget what it's called, but they're the community relations people who come in after an area's been occupied and work with the locals.
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Sounds like Civil Affairs.
I too don't have any sympathy for any reservist that complains about being deployed. It seems in the past many reservists saw the reserves as an extra paycheck and that's that. However, now that we're in a conflict and are short on troops, we have no other choice but to use reservists. Frankly if I had ever taken command of any reservists and they used those excuses that they didn't want to be there, I'd have them court martialed right away for dereliction of duty or cowardice. It's sad, but they have noone to blame but themselves.
Also a correction to your statement "Yes, she should have read the fine print, but I'm sure the recruiting officer didn't urge her to. " It would have been an enlisted recruiter. All army recruiters are enlisted (except for specialty recruiters - AMEDD, Jag etc). But from my experience a lot of recruiters don't care about the person they are recruiting. I'm sure her recruiter didn't tell her about the possibilities to being deployed. Still, that's her responsibility to do her homework before she joined. No remorse.