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[kellychaos]

To understand all this from a common active soldier's frame of mind, I offer the following:

From the very beginning of training, the instructors always instilled a pride in active duty soldiers and somewhat of a disdain for guardmen and reservists ... even in instructing those same people and to the point where some actually changed their minds while in training and went active. This did not stop in our permanent duty stations. Surely, when we trained with the active guard or reserves they had their equipment but it seemed often to be second-hand. In their attitude and/or training, they often appeared unprofessional. When I was training in Hawaii, some of the guardsmen came in concert t-shirts under their camouflage shirts instead of the regulation t-shirt. This may seem like petty stuff but, to those serving on active duty who have to "toe the line" all the time, these are things that a soldier just did not do. They were always the outsiders attached to this unit or that. Is it their fault that they did not have the proper training or equipment? Not necessarily but it is someone in their unit's fault. I'm not saying the way the guardsmen/reservists are treated is correct, I'm just detailing what may be an active duty soldier's mindset. Perhaps with working together, their will be (or is) more solidarity and cohesion but I can guarantee that most active duty soldiers felt the way I described initially.