Watching the Cardinals game tonight
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Yep, I don't get it either. It deeply saddens me whenever I read about a Nat Guard killed somewhere like Afghan, and learn they are some 40 yr old dad with a wife and kids at home. The Nat Guard should not be deployed out of the US, unless maybe temporarily for natural disasters for our neighbors.
According to the national guard website their “mission changed” after Operation Desert Storm. In other words the DOD decided they were going to turn them into missionaries instead of just protecting their home territory.
The Festus National Guard unit was activated back in 1968 and send to Fort Benning Ga. Back then they did not deploy the entire unit but used about 75% of the guys as replacements. Evidently a Reserve or National Guard unit from a small town was almost entirely wiped out in WWII. Now they're back to deploying the entire unit.
Married or married with kids were all used as replacements, even some with bone spurs. I believe the Festus Unit was activated once before Vietnam and several times since.
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I get it during a war but as far as I know we ain't at war right now.
Thanks Vallegrad, I didn't know that. I still think the NG should not be sent out of the US to fight but should guard our nation.........like deployed to our southern border!! But then I also think we should use our military on the border. What better place to train our military than the desert....like places where we seem to fight our conflicts like the Middle East..
I also think we should deploy the NP and military to our most violent areas in our cities.
I also think we should deploy the NP and military to our most violent areas in our cities.
