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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
OK, has Representative King voted for the huge manpower increases that would be required for the National Guard to perform this mission, and the massive amounts of money needed to call the National Guard into federal service indefinitely?

Every NG unit could do its two week annual training on the southern border.

135 posted on 06/06/2005 8:54:48 AM PDT by Terabitten (I have a duty as an AMERICAN, not a Republican. We can never put Party above Nation.)
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To: Terabitten

"Every NG unit could do its two week annual training on the southern border."

Yeah, sure. If every NG unit did its training on the border, at the same time, you'd have enough manpower on hand for two weeks.

The problem is that there are FIFTY-two weeks in a year. And chaining every national guard unit in the country to the Mexican border means that we will be unable to fight a war anywhere else.


136 posted on 06/06/2005 9:09:36 AM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse
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