[68skylark]

I think this mobilization was widely expected.

These National Guard enhanced separate brigades have a lot of combat power -- I'm sure these soldiers will make their mark whereever they're assigned.

Press reports seem to say that the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment from Tennessee will be the next brigade-sized unit to be mobilized -- if they haven't been already.

Kerry and McAuliffe should apologize for comparing Guardsmen to draft dodgers & deserters, and for calling them "not real military." But what are the odds of that?

[coop223]

An engineer I work with has been with the idaho national guard for the past 3 weeks and was expecting this call up.
He's a true patriot who I admire and have worked with here in california.