Reply #2: Going to be hard to put this in a coherent thought, but let me try [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

When speaking of active duty, for every man deployed we have to have two stateside. Ideally, one ready to go and one who has just returned. Even though it doesn't work out that way.
However, when speaking of reservists and NG, the same does not hold true which is why they have been so abused. They are freebies which this administration uses propagandishly in their military figures.
Now follow me, a reservist and National Guard are considered employees of the government. So when they are deployed, do they count those as jobs and insert that into the "created jobs" figures?
And when they are called up, their jobs at home become open thus "creating" more jobs. So basically for each reservist/guard that goes overseas, there is an inflated value inserted into the formula for jobs created.
Now the tricky part comes when they come home. Because they are "technically" still in the Guard and Reserves...they are not considered unemployed because they are still available to be called back up.
Which leads to an assumption that they are the most abused soldiers that we have because their presence can conflate many economic/military indicators to the advantage of this administration.