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I did 5 years in the Navy Reserve after I got off active duty, and I think the experience varies greatly based on the command and the political climate.
When I first joined (early 1991), the Cold War was just about over, and while it was less than it had been in the past, there still was funding to go fun places and do fun stuff.
That changed over the next few years, as the administrative bullshiat to flight hour ratio swung pretty far in the wrong direction. In a given year, there were weekends wasted for:
Change of command
Safety Stand Down
Sexual harassment training
Aircrew coordination training
I think there may have been another one in there, I really don't remember. But when you only have 12 available weekends, using a third of them for bureaucratic nonsense was pretty frustrating.
When if stopped being fun, I transferred to IRR and when it my enlistment was up I was out. Actually, it had stopped being fun about a year prior, I stuck it out longer than I should have.
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