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From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:50:04 +0100
Subject: Re: [OT] US 'Inactive' RE: [OT] Territorial Army was Re: [OT] Free CalTex Interplanetary...

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:45:39AM -0500, Doug Evans wrote:

>Add to that the fact that a fair number were both previous active
military
>and in position a lot longer than the bulk of the military, as I
understand
>it, and it actually makes sense.

Somebody who's in the regular forces made one decision to do that job.
Someone in the reserves is making that decision _every month_. IME
(which may of course not be universal) you get rather fewer timeservers
and time-wasters in the TA...

ObGZG: so, how about upgrading those "militia" starship units...? :-)

Roger

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