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2006-08-01 Science & Technology

Army NG Ready For Major Retool, Refit, Resupply

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-01 13:57|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One Army official acknowledged Tuesday that while all of the active Army units serving in the war zone are "100 percent" ready, the situation is not the same for those at home.

No different in peacetime. for the 70s and 80s, Europe was always kept at 100% at the expense of stateside units, personnel, equipment, and training dollors outside the strategic reserve divisions like the 82nd. It enjoyed personnel authorizations above 100%. Given that there was always some part of the manpower pool in transit, in training, hospitalized, etc, that meant other units were well below authorized strength. Equipment priorities and funding followed a similar pattern. Further down on the food chain were the reserves and NG.

Posted by Clealet Elmemp6475 2006-08-01 16:03|| 2006-08-01 16:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Stateside units not ready, National Guard needs money. Muggy in Florida this time of year.

Posted by 6 2006-08-01 17:49|| 2006-08-01 17:49|| Front Page Top

#3 More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard's 34 brigades are not combat ready due largely to vast equipment shortfalls that will take as much as $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said Tuesday.

and in other news, the pope is catholic. The NGB/DoD Has been looking at this as an opportunity to bring selected bde's up to modern standards since OIF I.

The problem, they say, is driven by budget constraints that won't allow the military to complete the personnel training and equipment repairs and replacement that must be done when units return home after deploying to Iraq or Afghanistan.

It will be done, it will just take longer and cost even more than they expect. This will be fun to watch.

Posted by N guard 2006-08-01 18:25|| 2006-08-01 18:25|| Front Page Top

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