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21 points bookofjoe | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 01:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.039s | source

1. euroderf ◴[22 Oct 24 13:28 UTC] No.41914040[source]▶

Can the DoD guarantee that you'll never ever get sent overseas against your wishes ? People in the reserve and the Guard got sent to Iraq.

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2. lordalch ◴[22 Oct 24 14:00 UTC] No.41914371[source]▶

>>41914040 (TP) #

I'm not trying to sound snarky, but the armed forces does have a category of employees who can't be involuntarily deployed: civilians. There are already many civilian employees of the DoD that work in the tech roles discussed in the article.

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