AP NewsBreak: Guard Stint to Last 2 Years

[Eugene]

AP NewsBreak: Guard Stint to Last 2 Years


Saturday May 20, 2006 12:16 AM

AP Photo AZMY108

By AARON C. DAVIS

Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - President Bush's planned deployment of National Guard troops
to the Mexican border would last at least two years with no clear end date, according
to a Pentagon memo obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

The one-page "initial guidance" memo to National Guard leaders in border states does not
address the estimated cost of the mission or when soldiers would be deployed. But high-
ranking officials in the California National Guard said they were told Friday that
deployments would not begin before early June.

While the military document makes clear the troops would remain under the command of their
governors, it also indicates a high degree of federal control over operations. It states
that the National Guard Bureau's Army and Air Directories "will serve as the states' focal
points for force-planning, training, organizing and equipping their forces."

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The memo sent Friday to Guard leaders went further, stating that units would remain in a
"federally funded" mission for "up to one year, with a force reduction to 3,000 during
the second year."

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5833330,00.html

[bemildred]

1. Desperate stupidilty. It must be an election year. nt

[saigon68]

10. Another reason not to Join Up

When you get back from Iraq-Nam you can go discipline and jail a bunch of Olympic Swimmers

[1620rock]

2. Smoke & mirrors.

[Frustratedlady]

3. I thought they said they would serve their summer training

on the border, rather than at the normal training center, which is just a matter of weeks. Was I dreaming?

[MadMaddie]

6. I thought I heard the same thing...

They original said that the guard would do their once a year two week tour on the border...but what they didn't say was that these troups will probably be rotating from the Iraq and Afghanastan desert to the desert in the South....I have said it before this is a recipe for disaster.

[NYC Liberal]

4. "with no clear end date"

Golly gee, where have we heard THAT before? :eyes:

[princehal]

5. They just wanna keep *US* in after they start a draft

nt

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. Exactly.

It's not like Canadians are going to sneak in here.

[alfredo]

7. The news of the extended deployments will be

welcomed with hugs and roses.

[Bozita]

8. Please delete the label "Weekend Warriors" from all NG units

9/11 changed everything.

[saigon68]

11. 19 guys with box cutters

Hmmm