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Dan wants to join the Air National Guard
Fri, 2006/05/19 - 8:53pm — Benjamin Melançon
Dan wants to join the Air National Guard. He claims he's done his research, on the internet.
An ex-recruiter, the local units web site, and the .gov sites.
"I'm tied to a geographical area with my unit."
"Air Force not army" (none of the Army Nat'l Guard horror stories will happen, is the claim)
I'd have to do my initial training somewhere else.
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We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
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Dan & the guard
Now that it has been a few years I would like to point out that it was an excellent move on Dan's part to join the Air Guard. Firstly, he's managed to last here without hating it for far longer than any other job he's held, and apart from the beginning time apart while he was in training, he does not get deployed for more than 45 days (as opposed to the 18 months of the army)...he's been in for 2 years and this will be his 1st time going anywhere
and you totally can't beat the almost free health care :-) or the fact that his kids think he's a G.I. Joe.
Eva Melancon