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Marinelarena, a reservist who was activated in January because of the war in Iraq, spent the spring semester at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, learning the ins and outs of urban combat and crowd control...
...word these days to patients of Las Vegas family practitioner Jeff Brookman is that the doctor is out - not on the golf course but in downtown Baghdad, where the reservist, 53, is a battalion surgeon doing trauma assessment and triage with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "He's three for three," says his wife Monterey, who has been taking his calls and referring his patients elsewhere for the past nine weeks. "First the Gulf War, then Somalia and now Iraq." This time, Monterey says, it has meant a pay cut of about 35%, and it will take months...
...Tyson is the exception. In Pensacola, Fla., Michelle Gale is struggling with the day-to-day challenges of raising eight children on less than half the $80,000 salary her Army reservist husband Randy was earning as a lineman for Sprint. He left three months ago for what could be two years with the 350th Civil Affairs Command in Hungary. Michelle fixed the dryer herself to save the service charge, but then the car broke down. Their savings account has shrunk to $175, and groceries alone cost $800 a month. When Randy asks how things are going, Michelle tries...
...free groceries at a military commissary while her husband serves in California, she has to load a cooler into her car and drive at least an hour. "What you save in tax-free," she says with a sigh, "you've just spent in gas." The families of activated reservists qualify for the same health plan as active-duty families, but that can mean finding new doctors and learning to navigate yet another bureaucracy. Their creditors' employees are not always aware that the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act requires interest rates to be reduced to 6% for deployed reservists. Monica...
...Some reservists who own small businesses have come home to find that their operations have collapsed. Erica Srednicki, 29, hopes that won't happen to her. Srednicki's orders came through in February, just when the Army reservist was getting her one-woman Morgantown, W.Va., catering service off the ground. With only two days' notice, she did some recruiting of her own. Her friend Chris Pigott and her mother Linda Srednicki have stepped in, and so far, it seems to be working. Though Linda lives 2? hours away and has a full-time job, she knew she was her daughter...