[Cogadh na Sith]

It is a nice thought but when your unit strength drops to 10% (due to the reasons I stated in the letter), what will you/we do then?

Bullshit! They aren't whiney malcontents like you are. They are in it for the long run, as am I.

As far as what I will do?--I guess I'll be pulling more guard duty shifts....

What is your beef with the guard anyhow?

I cannot express how completely wrong you are on this issue.

What is your real beef?

[2banana]

I have no real beef, I see a major problem coming right at us (and called a coward for my troubles). We have major retention probelms now (pre 9/11), do you think it is going to get better with these mission?

This will become a major problem and super human efforts by ones like yourself will not solve it. It will either lead to a draft to fill out the units or to an end of this mission. If neither happen, NG units will exist on paper only.