Among other things. This is a good article from the Christian Science Monitor mostly about how the National Guard is being used and how it's suffering. It touches lightly on the same subject as my earlier post about the reserve forces being overstretched. The part I'd like you to note is down lower where it says it's recruiting goals fell 10,000 short for the year. Also, in case you're not familiar with the Total Force Concept, the National Guard is basically considered to be an extension of the active branches of the military, so weaknesses in the National Guard will manifest themselves in military deployments of any kind.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0106/p01s01-usmi.html
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
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Sadly, I'm not surprised by this at all.
We've abused the Reserve and the National Guard by utilizing them in a way that we were never meant to, for a long-term engagement in a brutal insurgency. Now they and we are paying for it, and we can expect it only to get worse, as you certainly can't expect as many enlistees knowing that they may face being sent straight to Iraq.
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