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To: Terp

Well guard units funding comes from the states, depending on the unit sometimes they got great brand new stuff or put up with old cast off junk. If this was the so-called 'Champagne" outfit of the TxANG they probaly got pretty good stuff


93 posted on 09/08/2004 10:05:44 PM PDT by Wild_Bill_8881
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To: Wild_Bill_8881
Well guard units funding comes from the states....

Still stuck in my active duty mindset [grin].

110 posted on 09/08/2004 10:16:55 PM PDT by Terp (Retired living in Philippines were the Mountains meet the Sea in the Land of Smiles)
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To: Wild_Bill_8881
Well guard units funding comes from the states,

Very little of it. All their assigned equipment belongs not to the state, but the US Army or US Air Force. The salaries for the "pure reservists", come totatly from the Federales, I'm not sure about the funding for the so called "technitions", the full time cadre who, even though they wear USAF or US Army uniforms, are technically civiilians. In many states, OK for example, the "technitions" even belong to a government employees union, all but the officers. Perhaps even some of those, my squadron only had one full time officer, he was a mustang Captain, but was the XO or vice CO (It's been 26 years) the CO being a pure reservist.

223 posted on 09/08/2004 11:14:27 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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