Our National Guard has been doing this for years.
Remember the Alamo!
Well, it's not good enough because Bush should be impeached **sniffy sniffy**
For those who can't open a PDF file, I've written down what the link from CNN says. I don't know how to print out a PDF file on this forum so here is what the link details:
Do you favor or opposed putting the National Guard on the border?
Favor: 75%
Oppose: 21%
No opinion: 2%
Do you favor or oppose Bush policies on immigration:
Pre Speech:
Positive: 42%
Negative: 38%
No opinion: 2%
After the speech:
Positive: 67%
Oppose: 27%
No opinion: 6%
What was your impression of the speech:
Very positive: 40%
Somewhat positive: 39%
Somewhat negative: 11%
Very negative: 7%
Both: 2%
No opinion: 2%
Do you consider immigration important to the fall elections:
Most important issue: 7%
Very important: 47%
SOmewhat important: 37%
Not important: 7%
No opinion: 2%
Do you favor or oppose the proposal regarding illegals already here for a number of years and the plan for them to stay and earn citizenship:
Favor: 74%
Oppose: 20%
No opinion: 6%
Do you favor or oppose the proposal Bush made to allow foreign people to enter the US to work temporarily?
Favor: 69%
Oppose: 27%
No opinion: 4%
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/05/15/top13-may15-2006.pdf
With tours possibly ranging up to a year in length, I think this will severely impact the Gaurd in many Midwestern states for sure. I was in a Gaurd unit in Iowa and a lot of the soldiers there were farmers. Who is going to take care of their farm for a year tour?
Prepares to do what? Watch the illegals break into the country? They aren't allowed to stop them.
I just heard Jay Leno say something like...Oh Great the President just put National Guard on the wall. Now the wall will be protected 1 weekend a month, two weeks a year. Obviously he got a great laugh from the audience. I guess a cheap shot is a cheap shot. I love Jay and he is always bashing everyone, but to bash military was a bit low. Oh, and I am an active guy giving kudos to reservists.
Apparently the Guard troops are going to be doing this on their Annual Tours, based on various press accounts I've seen and heard in the last 24 hours.
I'm retired Regular AF, and had little exposure to the Air Guard except for a few Air Guard officers I dealt with from time to time in the Pentagon. I've had zero exposure to the Army Guard. But Reservist Annual Tours were typically about two weeks long, and I'll assume that a Guard Annual Tour is about the same two week period.
Given that, how much time will the individual Guardsmen actually spend performing these duties, whatever they turn out to be?
What I mean is, between in-processing, out-processing, various other Annual Tour requirements, being in-briefed, doing an out-brief with their replacement, etc, etc, how much time does this leave to actually perform duties - five or six days? Maybe?
This looks like it is mostly for show, and I'm trying to be generous here. And I doubt that the Guardsmen are actually going to get much meaningful duty, much less meaningful training, done on their Annual Tours. This is going to be something of an open joke amongst uniformed personnel of all services.
The Guard, and the American people, deserve better.
My Dad used to work at Camp Mabry ping.