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I Sense someting is comming for the National Guard. The Bosnia and Sinai Missions are already Guard. Kosovo and Afganistan will be soon. International troops are in Afganistan. Why are Bosnia,Kosovo not NATO missions. We should be excused from these because they are a European problem. Anybody seen that Jpeg showing a vehicle in Iraq with a hand made sign saying " One weekend a month My ass"???

I think you are on to something. The Guard is already running SFOR and is about to take over KFOR. I'm sure the active army would like to get out of Afganistan as soon as they can...it was tying up the 82nd and now the 10th MT. I'd look for a couple (or three) of those Army Guard "E Brigade's" to get a call shortly.
One might argue that the "streched too thin" argument is a canard: For example, over 50% of all the tank Battalions in the army are in the ARNG. Not one of them has been activated to do anything remotely close to their wartime mission, yet.
The army is on the horns of a classic dilemna with regard to ARNG combat forces: One the one hand, if a ARNG unit deploys and does well (there are already Guard Infantry units in Baghdad, but the Army doesn't make that known), then Congress might ask the reason why we have all these expensive Active units sitting around, when an ARNG unit can be trained up and deployed in the same amount of time (the 3rd ID didn't just roll in from Stewart and hit the berm...they had months to train in Kuwait).
However, the second horn might be worse...if that same Guard unit gets ripped apart in combat, congress will certainly ask the reason why the Active army did not prepare the Guard unit adequately...
Now that I think about it, perhaps it really IS all about the money and saving active duty Divisions...
regards,