One Thing: Deployed and Dejected: The National Guard in DC
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is one thing. I'm David Rind, and this is what fading morale sounds like. People are referring to the National Guard as like National Gardners. Stick with us. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. Could walk to school by himself. She could see something she shouldn't. He could chat with Grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. |
| 0:24.0 | So... |
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| 0:41.3 | Imagine for a second that you run a business and you employ someone who is in the National Guard. |
| 0:47.3 | There are a lot of benefits to hiring these folks, like generous tax credits, |
| 0:51.3 | and these are often talented professionals with a wide range of skills. However, |
| 0:55.4 | they do get pulled away for duty from time to time. Usually for about two weeks every summer, |
| 1:00.6 | but when there's an emergency like a natural disaster, they might be called up at a moment's notice |
| 1:05.2 | with no clear end date. As a boss, you have to fill holes in the schedule, make sure someone |
| 1:10.1 | qualified can step in. |
| 1:11.8 | It can be a drag on productivity and profits, but it's something employers come to expect, |
| 1:16.6 | and those extended deployments don't come around all that often. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm deploying the National Guard to help reestablish law, order of public safety in Washington, D.C., |
| 1:29.6 | and they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. |
| 1:32.6 | While recently, six Republican-led states sent hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., |
| 1:38.8 | to assist the D.C. National Guard with President Donald Trump's crime crackdown. |
| 1:43.7 | It's a safe zone because it's very safe. |
| 1:45.8 | You could walk down the street now and nothing's going to happen. |
| 1:49.0 | No crime, no murders, no nothing. |
| 1:51.6 | Trump claims the mission has been a big success. |
| 1:54.0 | However, critics complain he's turned National Guard members into political pawns. |
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