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To: Military family member

As i said before, there are guard and reserve members, who have more active duty time than soldiers assigned to regular units.

This doesn't say much for your knowledge of the military, especially as it pertains to active/duard/reserve components.
Clinton dessimated the active duty force numbers. By doing so, he shifted the burden of deployment after the initial encounter to the guard and reserve. The role of the guardreserves was forever changed by this. We need to restore the active duty forces to the pre-Clinton years, reinstate the draft and continue to rely on the guardreserve to a ledssor extent.
Final point: Guard/reserve personnel CANNOT get more active duty time than active duty military.


15 posted on 06/07/2004 6:52:55 PM PDT by conshack
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To: conshack
Then please explain to the reservists in Iraq why they are still there on active duty when regular units have been sent home? Or why the Air guard unit in my hometown has flown more sorties over the no-fly zone than any active unit?

I have had family in the military all my life...a wife, a brother, a father, cousins, uncles, you name it. In 1970, I walked behind my cousins coffin to his grave in Arlington.

My brother is in the Air National Guard. In the past 12 years, he has spent the equivilent of four years on active duty. So has his unit. Since four years is a standard enlistment for active personnel, I stand by what I say.

I know all about deployment. My wife is an active duty member of the Army National Guard (AGR), and a with the guard is to prepare units to go overseas. Since she enlisted five years ago, every single guard unit she has served with has gone on active duty.

What you are arguing proves my point. Yes, Clinton gutted the military. Two bases in my state were closed. But because we are using guard and reserve components so heavily, we do have Guard and Reserve personnel with more active duty points than traditional soldiers in regular units. Not all, just some.

18 posted on 06/07/2004 7:09:46 PM PDT by Military family member (Proud Pacers fan...still)
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