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I served overseas with NGs who were on 20 month Blackhawk deployments in Iraq 2006-8. The Guard gets fucked hard. Don’t try and lecture me punk. I put in 20 with mostly joint service ops. Fuck outta hereI'm no Tim Kennedy stan, but I'm not sure why you would talk about his reserve service as some kind of a downgrade. Many Reservists (and National Guardsmen) are on indefinite active status and attached to active duty units. Thanks to TFI, you'd be hard pressed to find a standalone reserve unit; they're all mixed in with active duty, which means they train and deploy together. Reservists also don't have to transfer or PCS like their active duty counterparts, so they act as the continuity while the other folks cycle through every few years.
Sure, you have the weekend warriors who do their minimum obligation and punch out after 1 enlistment without ever really becoming proficient at their job, but there's plenty of dirtbags on active duty who aren't worth a shit, either.
Being a national guardsman is the least of Tim's transgressions. This isn't the original Rambo movie. I have no clue why the cowardly, inept, clumsy reservist trope persists in 2026.