I am still trying to figure out the purpose of that article. It sounds like the guy in the article quit his job before deployment. If your in the guard you know all about these issues. Like you said if you quit your job to deploy, your just a dumb ass. The hardest thing about this last deployment has been registering for school. You get a deployment date, you don't sign up for that semester, and then the deployment date gets pushed back several time. You could've taken that this semester after all. That happened to about a quarter of the people in the Company. They lost out on a year of classes they could have taken. They are going to bitch about it, but they aren't going to run to a reporter and cry about it. Same thing about jobs applies to the college, if you get the college, scholarship and loan lenders a copy of your orders, you have no issues returning to school when you get back. All this stuff is drilled into your head as a soldier. You get tired of hearing about it. I get weekly emails from a military officer and job leads. Including jobs that pay full salary while you are deployed. The lack of information has not been there. Some people just have to have something to bitch about. The other thing that has happened are the soldiers that had no job before deployment. They were relying on this deployment as a full time job. There were a LOT of soldiers in the position.