[Osx-nutters] Fwd: U.S. Vulnerability and Windows of Opportunity

[Chuck Bennett]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Google Kreme wrote:

> On 16 Oct 2006, at 09:50 , Chuck Bennett wrote:
>> What a lot of people don't realize is that as our National Guard  
>> units are rotating back to the US, they are leaving their  
>> equipment there.
>
> Been meaning to ask this for awhile now, but isn't Bush's use of  
> the National Guard to fight a foreign war illegal?

No.   The law says that he can 'nationalize' them when they are  
needed.   It was Clinton's idea (calm down Matt, it was a good  
idea..) to
move the logistic support for the Army to the National Guard.   The  
idea was that we could keep the pointy end of the stick at a lower  
body count
and only bring up the entire force when we deployed to fight a  
war.    It saves a hell of a lot of money but, obviously, you can't  
sustain a long war without horrible costs to the lives
of the Guard.

One of my friend that just got back said that while the Army is  
meeting it's retention goals for the main force and is doing ok with  
new enlistments, they Guard folks he knows we simply done.
When their time is up, they are out.

As you mention, multiple deployments just wreak havoc in any normal  
persons lives.   One thing in the Guards favor is that I don't think  
a Guardsman can be deployed more than 24 months
(there is some argument is that means 24 consecutive months or  
cumulative total..)  in any case a lot of Guard are going to become  
off limits. to deploy very soon.


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