Well, they can always re-up for active duty. (Which is what some of them are doing.)Amid the chaos of war, Sgt. Roberto Orozco and about 35 other members of the Florida National Guard sent to Iraq relied on what they knew for certain: their military training, the love of their families and their government jobs back home.
Then one day in the combat zone, the men got a letter. When they returned home, the letter read, their jobs as full-time members of the Guard assigned to a federal drug interdiction program would be gone."We got shafted," said Orozco, 43, a Miami father of three.
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The letters, dated Jan. 12, 2004, informed the guardsmen that their jobs "are not militarily unique and are therefore better performed by other agencies."
The letter then referred them to several job placement Web sites before concluding, "You are constantly in our thoughts; rest assured that every decision we make is with our Counterdrug deployed soldiers and airmen in mind."[...]
[A]s military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan intensified, the U.S. Department of Defense looked for ways to trim the budget at home. A $2.5 million budget cutback in 2002 led to the layoffs of 70 Guard members.
A U.S. Air National Guard pilot and a crew member have been arrested for using official military missions to smuggle millions of dollars worth Ecstasy into the United States, federal authorities said on Wednesday.
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