Reservists Say War Makes Them Lose Jobs
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Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten.
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More jobs could be lost at a military aircraft repair agency which lost a quarter of its workforce earlier this year.
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In the latest signs of strains on the military from the war in Iraq, the Army National Guard announced on Thursday that it had fallen 30 percent below its recruiting goals
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Like anyone who goes to war, Sgt. Geoffrey Allison worried about making it home alive.
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In interviews with more than a dozen soldiers over a one-week period, most expressed disillusionment toward the situation in Iraq.
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&quot;As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They&#39;re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.&quot;.
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Critical to the war effort in Iraq, the National Guard and Army Reserve are drawing fewer enlistees. Will the troop shortage worsen?
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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The rest of us can filter things out â the dopey and the serious. But for many families with soldiers at war, the filter no longer works.
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The US Army said it is considering calling up about 5,600 honorably discharged reservists in 2005 to perform specialized duties in Iraq, the second such move since June.
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The Iraq war has strained U.S. forces to the point where they could not fight another large-scale war, according to a survey of military officers.
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The British Army, fighting in Iraq and  Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than  one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal  drug use, researchers said on Friday.
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The U.S. Army Reserve, tapped heavily to provide soldiers for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is "degenerating into a 'broken' force" due to dysfunctional military policies, the Army Reserve's chief said in a memo made public on Wednesday.
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At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists were court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own unit's mission to Iraq.
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Many private workers are returning home with combat-related mental health problems, but their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.
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Nearly half the U.S. soldiers in  Iraq are reservists and they deserve to have their health care  and education benefits increased, Democrats said on Saturday.
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An Iraq war veteran could lose his honorable discharge status after being photographed wearing fatigues at an anti-war protest.