[digger48]

said his force of 106,800 is being funded at adequate levels to remain operational.

"I'm not saying the sky is falling," he said. "I'm saying the system works. ... We want that to continue."

couldn't parts of these quote make a headline too, instead of "Guard leaders say policies must change"?

[MNJohnnie]

BS. A bunch of uniformed bureaucrats are running around staging PR stunts to drum up support to keep their rice bowl filled. So they throw around words to shock and frighten the ignorant into buying their nostrums. "Conscription" Not a chance in heck.

The current plans to expand the regular military and get scale back this Clinton era over reliance on the Guard/Reserves is exactly the right one. Instead of looking for way to expand the Reserves/Guards who have continually trouble with recruitment and retention because they are "overdeployed", we should be shifting as many resources as possible into active duty units.