No he did NOT spend 24 years wearing the uniform! He was in the National Guard, he wore it one weekend a month and two weeks per year for active duty training: NOT active duty in a war zone.
He did NOT wear it in combat. Surely he would have remembered if he had been in combat. Or held a military weapon anyplace but on the training range. Maybe a parade, but usually the "weapons of war" were locked in the arms room.
Funny my brother who entered the army reserves at the end of Vietnam war, after his initial training at Ft. Bragg, I don't think attended any additional duty periods.
He said ever time they called him, he would explain that he just started a new job, of has a certain commitment, and they would seemingly move on the the next person.
He told me that he got promoted from 2 Lt., to 1 Lt., to Captain because he was #1 in his class, he suspects, by mail notification without ever have performed any duty time, if that's what you call it
No he did NOT spend 24 years wearing the uniform! He was in the National Guard, he wore it one weekend a month and two weeks per year for active duty training: NOT active duty in a war zone.
He did NOT wear it in combat. Surely he would have remembered if he had been in combat. Or held a military weapon anyplace but on the training range. Maybe a parade, but usually the "weapons of war" were locked in the arms room.
He is a bold-faced LIAR!
Funny my brother who entered the army reserves at the end of Vietnam war, after his initial training at Ft. Bragg, I don't think attended any additional duty periods.
He said ever time they called him, he would explain that he just started a new job, of has a certain commitment, and they would seemingly move on the the next person.
He told me that he got promoted from 2 Lt., to 1 Lt., to Captain because he was #1 in his class, he suspects, by mail notification without ever have performed any duty time, if that's what you call it
Sounds like the inactive Reserve.