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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.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

Is it ok when you don't pay your soldiers? Does that usually go well?

[-] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No, it doesn’t.

On top of that, the military tends to have a lot of immigrants join due to the fact they can fast track naturalization by doing so. This being the California National Guard, I wonder how many of these soldiers have friends and/or family who have been kidnapped, or are under the threat of being kidnapped, by ICE.

I suspect morale is completely in the shitter for these people right now.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

Channel 5 did a short 11 minute video of the cop/guard lines outside the detention center and yeah, there were a lot of immigrants on the wrong side. The people protesting even knew some of them and were shaming them.

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