MILWAUKEE -- Thousands of Wisconsin troops could be deployed next year and the effects are likely to be big for both soldiers and their employers.

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Kelly Bell, a nurse at Aurora Sinai Hospital, has been sent around the country on numerous training missions with the U.S. Army Reserve.

"It does sometimes take a couple days to sort of get back in it; even your skills," said Bell. "If I go on a training mission a lot of times I'm not starting IVs and then I come back here, and it's been three weeks and I haven't started an IV."

She's not alone. Currently, Aurora Health Care, which has medical centers around the state including St Luke's in Milwaukee, has 12 members deployed and many more in the service.

The company has won awards for its care of military employees but admit replacing them is challenging.

"What we do is rely upon the staff that we have that many times are working additional shifts we may hire someone from the outside on a temporary basis," said Dwight Morgan, vice president of human resources services for Aurora.

As the nation continues to be at war, the swing issue becomes how to help employers and especially soldiers as deployments continue.

"I think just to keep supporting those employment rights so that you're not expected to come back to work right away because you need to just digress from whatever situation you were in," said Bell.

"I think the things if I were advising a candidate it would be to ensure that if you're going to be calling up our citizens that when it comes time for them to return they're providing all the necessary resources that are available," said Morgan.

Bell said co-workers share military stories and support and so does her family.

Between deployments and trainings she figures she's seen her husband three years of her six year marriage, but said she wouldn't change a thing.

"Its just a decision that I made that I wanted to support my country in that way, so I joined the military, and if they need me, I'll go," said Bell.

The Wisconsin National Guard 32nd Infantry Brigade has been training for a likely mobilization next year meaning around 3,500 soldiers and numerous employers would see. It would be the largest guard deployment since World War II.