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2007-01-25 Home Front: WoT

In future, Nat'l Guard & Reserves to have shorter combat tours

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That's good. I always thought of the Guard as short-term emergency troops. Mobilize, attack someplace, then demob. The regular Army should be doing to long-term occupations. I guess the Reserves should be in-between.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2007-01-25 08:16|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-01-25 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 In the aftermath of the first Gulf War, the Guard Bureau leverage its legislative influence to avoid the cuts and downsizing heaped upon the regular forces. As a consequence the regular forces not only faced reduced budgets by the late 90s but also had to carry unreduced guard units resulting in budget crunches and shortfalls in equipment, training, and maintenance. That in turn encourage many of the active military to hang it up. Check the enlistment and reenlistment and officer retention issues in the late 90s. The Guard placed itself in the position were there is no choice but to use it. It's that or they should have been ramping up a permanent increase in the active forces by 2002.

Shorter tours. BS. Operational requirements will determine tours. When tours start dictating operations, you've lost it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-25 16:03|| 2007-01-25 16:03|| Front Page Top

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