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Nowhere Man
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 Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:04 am Post subject: Why is the National Guard in Iraq? |
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I realize that some National Guard troops were sent to Vietnam, so this isn't a wholly new thing.
But I don't really understand, if the name implies correctly, why the National Guard gets sent to foreign soil. What about the Coast Guard? Are they also subject to duty in Iraq?
Just looking for an explanation... |
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some waygug-in
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:59 am Post subject: |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:15 am Post subject: |
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It has nothing to do with the Bush Administration, waygug-in. It's a force structure philosphy that concentrates training on a small, professional, active-duty force and supplements this, indeed, relies on, a large number of reserves to back the active-duty force up in wartime, etc.
Note that many reserve MOS include signals, military police, transportation, etc.
It makes for a cheaper budget, especially in peacetime, and allows for top-of-the line equipment and training for the active-duty force...
This force structure philosphy goes back at least as far as Reagan/Bush, as far as I know. Mahan talks about it, I recall, in his late nineteenth-century works on how a modern Navy ought to be structured, for example. |
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Nowhere Man
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: ... |
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So Goph,
What you are saying is that the National Guard functions as an army reserve?
What, then, about the Army Reserve?
What about the Coast Guard?
This is what I'd most like explained. Our Coast hasn't moved to the Middle East. So we still have the Coast Guard guarding it, right?
I really just want to know.
As for Bush/Reagan, I'm pretty sure there were some NG in Vietnam. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:07 am Post subject: |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:25 am Post subject: ... |
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| I'm afraid that's all I can contribute to the questions you raised. |
Wow, are you sure?
You're just going to let me burble in my all-consuming hatred, not understanding word one of what you're saying? |
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some waygug-in
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
| Thank you for correcting my mis-informed opinion. |
You, too, have descended to his dark, sarcastic world of bitterness and hostility? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:46 am Post subject: |
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It wasn't intended to be sarcastic. If it seems that way, I apologize.
I think things have gotten a bit too personalized and I would rather that people just calm down a notch or two.
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