The problem is that there are FIFTY-two weeks in a year.
52 weeks in a year means 26 annual training periods. I'm fairly certain that there are at least 26 brigade sized elements in the National Guard. A brigade can cover a lot of frontage, although certainly not the whole border. Nonetheless, 132 Bradley Fighting Vehicles roaming up and down the border would certainly be a deterrent.
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.
It isn't the National Guard's job to fight wars anywhere else. Defense of the borders of the US is one of the Guard's stated, mandated missions. The Guard has been misused for the last 25 years as the backup for the active duty.
"52 weeks in a year means 26 annual training periods. I'm fairly certain that there are at least 26 brigade sized elements in the National Guard."
You're saying that the National Guard musters almost NONE FULL DIVISIONS?
The regular army is ten divisions.
"A brigade can cover a lot of frontage, although certainly not the whole border."
Then they'll just go around.
Cover the whole damn border, or you're just making the problem for someone else.
"Nonetheless, 132 Bradley Fighting Vehicles roaming up and down the border would certainly be a deterrent."
Until they throw tracks and break torsion bars near where I live. The terrain on much of the border is lousy if you're a track-toad.
Nope, you're going to need a lot of men, and you're going to need them full-time.
"It isn't the National Guard's job to fight wars anywhere else."
Oh, you want to go back to the era where the cowards hid out in the Guard, eh? Fat lot of good they'd do in guarding the border, then.
"Defense of the borders of the US is one of the Guard's stated, mandated missions. The Guard has been misused for the last 25 years as the backup for the active duty."
There was a specific reason for doing that. The Joint Chiefs set it up that way so that, the next time some damn fool politician wanted to send a bunch of troops somewhere in the name of "doing something," he'd have to call up the Guard, and thus be forced to explain exactly why Joe the barber and Bob the auto mechanic were being sent to some place nobody had ever heard of.