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fully equipped with training, equipment, body armor, a rifle, and back up support,” he said. “There are many soldiers who go out everyday and come back with combat experience.”
Combat experience, he said, has led the Guard to become an increasingly stronger, more professional organization. He noted that because National Guard soldiers are usually working citizens, they are more skillfully diverse. Griffiths admitted that a group of strong individuals sometimes have a difficult time working together at first but soon become more of a team. “Deployment experience really trains you to work together and rely on other people,” he said. America’s response
Griffiths also spoke about the cultural change in America since he first joined in 1986. “Those were the days when the military received a lot of support, as it was towards the end of the Reagan administration,” he said, as he fisted popular movies of the era such as Tbp Gun, Platoon and Commando. ‘It seems that America was trying to make up for what had happened in Vietnam.”
When asked about the current American perspective of the military, he hesitated.
“It’s interesting how 9/11 has affected different people in different ways,” he said finally, “that day has affected every part of my fife, taking me to Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s strange to me to find people
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