From: Thomas M McHugh (tmmchugh@msn.com)
Date: Sat Jul 03 2004 - 14:30:11 PDT
The National Guard requirements for activation were changed, since Vietnam.
At that time complete units were taken, but not individuals. When the
Military cuts were in full swing, the percentage of troops changed so that
almost 80% of the Military Force is now Guard & Reserve. This makes it a
sure thing that Guard & Reserve WILL be activated, more & more often.
My thoughts are that Germany & France do not want to help. Spain & NATO is
hesitant. They now think they are strong enough to run things their way.
GREAT ! Pull all troops from Germany, France & Spain. Also send home
the dependents. They do not want to help, they SHOULD NOT be getting the
funds from the troops living in the Countries.
That will give us plenty of troops for rotation & at the same time let the
BS Specialists in those countries, pay for their own protection & security.
If they will not stay within logical rules of engagement, we should be nice
& give them what they want.
That is not Isolationism, it is Real World. Talk big & insult us, pay the
price for your own Armies..
In my 43 years in the military system, I did not have to work within the
political BS, that is now so prevalent.
Tom McHugh, NJ
1952 M38A1
M-416 Trailer
MVPA, MTA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Thomas" <bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 4:26 PM
Subject: [MV] Off Topic: Nat'l Guard Redeployment
> I have found it really odd that the NG has been sent to Iraq to fight a
> war when we have troops all over the world who ARE trained and equipped
> to do so who have not been. Growing up my impression was that the Guard
> was here to help with domestic problems and Possibly to relieve active
> duty forces so that those forces could go fight an action..
>
> I know this is off topic, and apologize for it, but I've been wondering
> about this since we went back into Iraq. And this list tracks military
> matters closely. I have not seen anything about this in the press or on
> the radio. I know our forces were down sized tremendously but why are NG
> troops being killed when we have active duty troops available all around
> the world? And to get home and be 're-deployed'...
>
> Were the Guard so widely used in the first Iraq war? In Vietnam?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>
> *********************
>
>
> Hadn't seen that about units getting tapped to deploy again. I saw the
> bit about calling up from the Inactive ready reserve. And I know there
> are some who deployed on Homeland security missions who then went with
> units overseas. And I know we are short some types of units needed at
> this time. But I don't think a draft would solve anything, except maybe
> to get "K" elected. The active duty folks I talk to aren't interested in
> a draft, TRADOC isn't set up to train huge numbers of draftees, there
> isn't the infrastructure to support a large influx of draftees and you
> will note the only one with any political will to suggest it has bee
> Charels Rangle.
>
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