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2006-11-11 Iraq

National Guard Brigades Returning From Iraq May Serve Second Term Under New Plan

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-11 15:33|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Uhm, would this not be a clear indication that we either need a larger active duty force or that we need to cull our other worldwide committments? I don't know that the latter issue would address the manpower shortfall/constraints we are seeing.

Posted by Remoteman 2006-11-11 16:02|| 2006-11-11 16:02|| Front Page Top

#2 FWIW: back in 2003-4 we were told that we would be up for a rotation every 5 years. Guess what-- it's been 5 years for some guard units since they were last mobilized for Iraq. My unit is up for another tour in 2010.

It still is better than what granpaw had to put up with. He got mobilized "for the duration".

On a related note--I would pay good money to watch the Dems try to activate the Selective Service now.
Watching the pained contortions they would go through to justify it...priceless.

Posted by N guard 2006-11-11 16:40|| 2006-11-11 16:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh they'd do it in a minute. Their belief is that with a drafted army, we would never be willing to go to war except to protect the continent (which they'd give away so no need to fight). Plus, the nastier Dhimmis acknowledge that a drafted army is of lower quality than a volunteer army, and they believe this to be a good thing for the US.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-11-11 18:41|| 2006-11-11 18:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The Donks want to dismantle an effective and efficient military. They know that they, just as their opponents who they painted as corrupt as though that was exclusive, are held in low esteem. Think the President has low ratings, check Congress. Now check the esteem of our military. If you screw up hard enough and long enough the people might, just might invite someone else to run things for a while. If youre a Donk you dont want that, ever. It would be like Detroit caught without small fuel efficient cars during the oil crisis of the 1970s. Once the American public experienced not only the efficiencies of the Japanese vehicles but the fine construction and long list of standard equipment, Detroit lost a third of the market and hasnt recovered.

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-11-11 19:40|| 2006-11-11 19:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Good points-- Plus one other that says the Dhimmis will never restart the Selective Service:
The startup political transients will kill any hope of staying in power.

Back in the 1930's, the start of the draft caused a great deal of political pain, and that was in a society that basicaly approved of what was happening. Nowadays, well, its different.

I'm pretty sure I do NOT want anyone in my platoon that does not want to be there. I have enough headaches with two lazy, shiftless bastards that just joined the guard for the education bennies. (long irrelevant rant deleted)

I do not want to imagine what it would be like if they drafted some of the ADD slackers I see in freshman english. Some of those mental defectives I would not want within 50M of a operational weapon, loaded or not!

I wonder how Grampaw delt with the cat IVc duds he got saddled with? Polish mine detector, maybe?

Posted by N guard 2006-11-11 21:17|| 2006-11-11 21:17|| Front Page Top

#6 No sympathy here. When Congress decided to implement the Total Force concept in which the Guard, Reserve and Regular forces are combined to create a single fighting force because it was cheaper, this is the inevitable outcome. It is not fair to anyone. The concept is effective if you fight one war against one or more nation states. It falls apart when the demand for combat forces is continuous and unrelenting. It will get worse under the Democrats because they will involve us in an unending stream of police actions in pissant countries that do nothing but cost money and kill soldiers (e.g., Somalia, Darfur, Lebanon)

Posted by RWV 2006-11-11 21:24|| 2006-11-11 21:24|| Front Page Top

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