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madville

(7,842 posts)
6. Having deployed myself long ago
Mon Jun 9, 2025, 04:14 PM
Jun 2025

Sometimes you arrive before the Admin folks can set up lodging or there is no lodging. We had connex boxes that could be loaded on semi trailers with our tents, water, MREs and other equipment and supplies but sometimes we got there days ahead of that stuff arriving and getting set up.

You rest anywhere you can when given the opportunity. I’ve had to sleep on the floor in a daycare center for a few days after a hurricane. Have also stayed in large tents in muddy fields or the desert on hard cots and a sleeping bag, slept in vehicles, slept in vacant office buildings slept in the rain, on picnic tables, etc, etc.

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Meidas report that they have no food water or lodging FirstLight Jun 2025 #1
Plenty of TACO stands. Put it on trump's credit card. Silent Type Jun 2025 #2
Kick dalton99a Jun 2025 #3
Makes me want to cry. They should not be treated so poorly. yellow dahlia Jun 2025 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author madville Jun 2025 #9
This is pretty standard madville Jun 2025 #19
But no food being provided? yellow dahlia Jun 2025 #20
Find it hard to believe madville Jun 2025 #21
Probably the guy that ordered them out.. Kablooie Jun 2025 #28
Not really the way it works madville Jun 2025 #29
But that's in the United States. Kablooie Jun 2025 #32
It is something those who have never been in the military have difficulty understanding sarisataka Jun 2025 #31
well they chose to follow orders, sleeping on the floor is their reward from their overlords nt msongs Jun 2025 #22
Proud of the CA National Guard rockfordfile Jun 2025 #5
You do not need the national guard to deal with this newdeal2 Jun 2025 #7
unfortunately what people see on stillcool Jun 2025 #13
There's those "normal people" again Prairie Gates Jun 2025 #18
Having deployed myself long ago madville Jun 2025 #6
Did you Rebl2 Jun 2025 #12
Not that one madville Jun 2025 #14
This is true in Search and Rescue too genxlib Jun 2025 #16
Sometimes you just don't care madville Jun 2025 #24
Did they Rebl2 Jun 2025 #8
Standard Trump organizational skills Johonny Jun 2025 #10
Makes them more irritable the next shift lame54 Jun 2025 #11
For anybody commenting on other social media, please do not denigrate the guardsman SSJVegeta Jun 2025 #15
ICE is in hotels ;) LauraInLA Jun 2025 #17
What? No Trump Hotel in LA? milestogo Jun 2025 #23
CA guard is highly trained to respond to...earthquakes. use earthquake logistics nt msongs Jun 2025 #25
They are soldiers! Many times I would have been happy for a dry hard floor out of the rain, wind and cold. Sheesh! dutch777 Jun 2025 #26
Hoping that hard floor UpInArms Jun 2025 #27
They are ok being treated this way? I think they should join protesters! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #30
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