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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (105158)	12/2/2009 7:35:16 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

How many National Guard are currently deployed(for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time?) doing the work of the regular troops? How many private contractors? As for National Guard, they are supposed to be guaranteed their job when they demobilize. And there's often considerable trouble for the employer, both politically and legally, if they refuse to re-hire the deployed reservist. And I know that there a number of reservists normally underemployed, or outright out of a job, when they aren't on active duty status. Many are students in college. As for contractors, many of them were retired military (that was my experience) prior to taking contracts. So I guess they will go back to being retired. But there are certainly other contractors who will be unemployed, that I cannot deny. But the point was about how, somehow, the size of our military would shrink dramatically as it did in the post WWII era once hostilities ended. That's just not the case. Hawk