I wonder. Was this standard during Vietnam or WWII? I mean the National Guard was activated during those wars. I don't ever recall hearing the heroics of the Pennsylvania National Guard on D-Day. Or the California National Guard at Da Nang.
May I speculate that identifying these heroic soldiers as Georgia National Guard instead of US Army is intended to sway my opinion of the war?
I'm not impugning service in the Georgia National Guard. But those men are doing a greater service as American soldiers right now.
"Was this standard during Vietnam or WWII? I mean the National Guard was activated during those wars. I don't ever recall hearing the heroics of the Pennsylvania National Guard on D-Day. Or the California National Guard at Da Nang."
During Vn, we had the draft, therefore plenty of personnel to fill the slots......so very few Guard or reserve UNITS went there......but I can tell you that lots of Guard and Reserve members chose to go on active duty AS INDIVIDUALS, and were dispersed within active units serving in Vn. I was aware of 4 or 5 in one Company in my infantry Battalion, and there may have been more. Many subject to the draft used the Guard and Reserve to avoid Vn, but some of them chose to go.