The National Guard is tired

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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0:00.0	When the heavens thunder.
0:05.0	Maybe you don't think about the National Guard too much.
0:07.0	Oh, come on.
0:08.0	Find yourself at the Army National Guard serving one weekend a month and two weeks a year,
0:13.5	and you'll find an extra paycheck, money for college, and all the adventure you can handle.
0:17.6	They're just there whenever you need them to, I don't know.
0:21.0	Some National Guard soldiers are leaving San Diego for a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.
0:27.0	The National Guard members driving school bus.
0:31.0	A third straight day of protest in Philadelphia, the National Guard is now controlling the streets.
0:34.0	New Mexico's governor has called out the National Guard just to keep the kids in the classroom.
0:39.0	Called 1-800-GO Guard.
0:41.0	But now some in the National Guard have had enough.
0:45.0	And there's one mission in particular that pushed the Texas Guard so far over the edge.
0:49.0	They're going the way of auto workers and Starbucks baristas.
0:53.0	They're going to try and unionize.
0:56.0	Demission.
0:57.0	Operation.
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