Mr Pugh served with the army in North Korea for six years and also as a reservist for nine years.
In the IDF, which he served as a reservist for nearly a quarter of a century, soldiers are encouraged to improvise, lest they lose the initiative in the fog of battle.
"If I get that call, that throws everything up in the air," said Mr. Mittman, who has been a reservist for 12 years.
Mr Hurley, who has been a reservist for 43 years and is also Surrey's Police and Crime Commissioner, said he had seen "many cases of discrimination" and had once been told openly he was refused a senior job because he was in the Territorial Army TAArmy TA
"I see a soldier, a person," said Staff Sgt. William Eaker, whose mother, a nurse, is a reservist on standby for deployment.
His assistant was 2d Lt. Harris Hull, a reservist on temporary duty for the exercise who was a reporter for the Washington Post in civilian life.
At Webb's Barbershop, Shan Charles, a salesman for Frito-Lay and a Navy reservist, responded to a barber's disapproving comment about the spending request with a quick retort.
A lawyer for the reservist, Sgt. Betsy Valentin, said yesterday that she was flabbergasted and too distraught to talk.
Mr. Granados was a Coast Guard reservist for 20 years, and a bit of the military way of thinking rubbed off on him.
But a recent study by the Rand Corporation†††, based on payroll records for all reservists, found that those being deployed to Iraq make more money than they were earning as civilians.
