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3. My brother was in the NYNG for 14yrs

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:03 PM

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he took army basis and advanced artillery at Fort Sill. He said it was like going to summer camp on their yearly training. Mostly it was a bunch of old guys hanging other drinking enough near beer to get a buzz. Putting people w/o any LE training or handgun training on the street was stupid. Its Trump fault sending people out to play cops and robbers.

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