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To: unclewest who wrote (53232)	7/7/2004 4:25:09 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) of 793801

UW, What did you think of the IRR callup back in 90-91? This isn't the first time its been used, or even close to being the largest. 20k Soldiers were called up during Desert Shield/Storm - 3 of them in my workgroup at the time and another who was a neighbor and no draft resulted. I think the big issue is the number of deployable troops vs the number of troops. To put a 130k soldiers in Iraq should not have required substantial Guard involvement. Why did it? The Army has only 499,000 active duty Army troops, backed up by 700,000 National Guard and Army reservists. That's a third less than when the U.S. fought its last big war in the Persian Gulf, in 1991. The Army is not down to 499k due to recruitment issues, but because we decided we didn't have as many threats. If we went back to a force that size (750k) the individuals would be a lot less stressed. Todays reality is a lot different than when we started reducing the military in the 90's. A realistic assessment of sizing needs to be done (sans politics). John

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