It's the National Guard, they're reservists with day jobs. For all anyone knows, he was going to quit at that time anyway. Soldiers quit all the time. National Guard can quit whenever they want, they're not signed up to contracts like the Army or other branches.As a soldier what you prefer ,24 years of no deployments or 2 years of being deployed?
As there are many soldiers who have been deployed with young families and pregnant wives. What makes him so special?
Stacks of National Guardsmen don't deploy overseas for reasons at home (work, study, family).
Conflating them with full-time soldiers is an incorrect assertion.