Your post has me seeing red.

First, that's not a fair definition of what capitalism is. But that's an argument for another day.

More importantly, stop staying shi'ite like that! I'm tired of my military service being described as anything but serving my country! Stop saying crap or insinuating that our military service if for "managing our schedules", "managing our quality of life", "getting past probation periods or probation pay", or "dropping those unwanted trips." That infuriates me!

I serve because quite frankly I want to serve and our country needs guys like me. And yes I acknowledge the incentive of maybe, just maybe, making it to 20 years so I can get a reserve retirement is part of that.

The truth is our Nation's defense can't survive without the Guard and Reserves. And just as Albie said and knocked it out of the park, we are every bit as capable if not more than our active duty counterparts, and our country exploits our knowledge and skills and saves a lot of money using us. More so, we tend to be the continuity and subject matter experts in our MOS/AFSC that is lacking in the "go here do the job for two years and move when you figure it out" active duty military.

If Airlines for America doesn't want our participation in the G&R, I say we threaten to significantly raise their federal tax dollars to help pay for a larger standing active duty force.