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Hugin

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15. I was out in the cold with literally the clothes on my back...
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 11:41 AM
Dec 23

I had to call my folks collect to wire me bus fare to get 1000 miles back before I was declared AWOL.

On any deployment after that I carried an emergency fund of enough cash to get me the Hell out of wherever I was. Which introduced additional dangers. But, my trust in the system was gone.

They didn’t have my back and apparently never did.

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