Local donations from businesses such as pizza shops, a staple of domestic Guard deployments, often help fill gaps, but this time, the community has largely stayed away.
One midlevel officer said their unit would receive “extremely generous” help when deployed to combat wildfires, including water, sports drinks and food, which played a significant role in morale and tightened the Guard-community relationship.
“This is a situation [where] we’re against the community,” the officer told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation.
This is like that time NG was sent to the border and they kept shooting each other on accident while complaining they had to sleep outside with no Taco Bell or McDonald’s to eat even tho there was one like 2 feet away.