Twenty-Percent Soldiers

<p style=margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 11.0px 'Warnock Pro';>. . . a poignant reminder that our freedom still depends on 'twenty-percent soldiers' who volunteer to protect and defend our nation when duty calls.</p><p style=margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px; text-align: justify; font: 9.0px Gotham;><br></p><p style=margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px; text-align: justify; font: 9.0px Gotham;>-Tom Ridge 43rd Governor of Pennsylvania First US Secretary of Homeland Security</p><p><br></p><p>The National Guard and Reserves is comprised of remarkable men and women who work behind the scenes as our nation's supplemental fighting force. It's a part-time job with a full-time commitment that involves the entire family. They wear the same uniforms and train to the same standards as America's full-time military. And when called to service they fight right alongside the active duty. Nobody knows the difference. Yet they are very different.</p><p> </p><p><em>Twenty-Percent Soldiers</em> is the true account of one couple's life in the National Guard through eighteen years of part-time warfare. With humor and humility Kevin and Susan Dellicker portray what it's like to jump back and forth between having a normal civilian life in small-town Pennsylvania and conducting special operations missions in Southwest Asia. A tribute to all the part-time soldiers and their families who have been fighting the Global War on Terrorism since 9/11 this story is also a call-to-action for politicians and military leaders to fix a broken family support system that is failing the part-time force.</p><p> </p><p><em>Twenty-Percent Soldiers</em> reinforces a truth that all Americans can embrace: With perseverance love and faith ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.</p>