Some of you may remember when something like, oh, say, volunteering, was pretty straightforward. Believe it or not, there was a time when volunteering, organizing a bake sale at the motor pool or a car wash at the gas station, and spending the funds you raised on your unit as you saw fit did not involve a twelve-step process and four hundred miles of red tape. But, as this milspouse reminds us, those were the good old days. Heh...
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