[Paladin2]

"Why does the National Guard need Apaches?"

Uh, 'cause plenty of NG Troops are shipped overseas to do the job the Regular Army used to do all of?

[ansel12]

The National Guard is intended to do a lot of our war fighting, don’t let the Vietnam war when Reserve losses approached 6,000 and Guard losses close to a 100 mislead you into thinking that was normal, in WWII for instance you would be amazed at all the National Guard divisions.