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Is it time to let GIJoe end?
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05-18-2017, 08:07 PM
SmokeBellew
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Originally Posted by
Zap Rowsdower
You're right that reservists aren't counted in those figures for the present time, but they aren't counted for any other period in the past either.
Take 1990's Desert Storm
, there were at least 47,000 mobilizations of reservists that year alone (I didn't take the time to do all the math, but you can see 47k easily).
according to CNN
there have been 780,000 overseas reservist deployments since 9/11/2001 (sourced from
a 2017 National Guard posture statement
stating: "With nearly 780,000 individual overseas mobilizations since 9/11, the National Guard has proven, time and again, its readiness and warfighting capabilities." - it's at the bottom right of page 4).
While it's unlikely those were all equally distributed over the roughly 16 years in question, that still averages only 48,750 deployments per year. That's not far off from Desert Storm numbers. Deployments usually run 9 months to 15 months I think (on this point I admit ignorance). So basically, I think those are per-year, give or take. That still leaves the overall number way below what it was in the 80's and 90's. I'd also guess that some of those are multiple tours for individuals which would reduce the distribution of kids who know an active soldier. But even if not, none of that makes up for the ~500,000 greater number of active military we had in the 80's. Any way you slice it, it just seems really unlikely that your particular experience is one that is shared by society generally. That's not to say the kids in your neighborhood aren't averse to Joe for the reasons you assume (maybe that's EXACTLY their feeling - who knows?), but just to say that even if they are, there are fewer kids today who would have that connection to get in the way of Joe toys in the first place.
As I said, as a parent of a son whose friends have been affected by deployment, I've seen firsthand their lack of interest in military toys. Is that reality widespread? Chances are, yes. I don't live in a vacuum, nor in an area particularly crowded with service-members.
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