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To: steve dietrich who wrote (535643)	2/5/2004 9:55:43 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

What I know to be true is that many Guard units did not have update equipment to do much on their own, but whether the Guard was what you call "first line" or not, evidently, you did not read the whole article. AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY “Air National Guard And Reserve Units Make Up Between 60 Percent And 80 Percent” Of Air Force Personnel Who Served In Liberation Of Afghanistan. (Matt Kelley, “Air National Guard, Reserve Forces A Big Part Of War In Afghanistan,” The Associated Press, 4/20/02) 63,000 Guardsmen Served In Desert Storm, And Guard Has Played Major Role In Peacekeeping Operations In Last Decade. “Approximately 63,000 Army Guardsmen were called to serve in Desert Storm, and in the decade since then Guardsmen have seen a greater role than ever before – conducting peacekeeping in Somalia, Haiti, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Bosnia, and Kosovo.” (Army National Guard Website, www.arng.army.mil, Accessed 2/4/04) “The Guard Doubled The Size Of The Regular Army When It Was Mobilized In 1940, More Than A Year Before Pearl Harbor, And Contributed 19 Divisions To” World War II, Plus Numerous Aviation Squadrons. (Army National Guard Website, www.arng.army.mil, Accessed 2/4/04) Army National Guard, “The Oldest Component Of The Armed Forces Of The United States And One Of The Nation’s Longest Enduring Institutions, Celebrated Its 366th Birthday In 2002.” (Army National Guard Website, www.arng.army.mil, Accessed 2/4/04) Air National Guardsmen Participated In Almost Every Conflict Since First World War. “Although the Air National Guard was not established as a separate reserve component of the U.S. Air Force until 18 September 1947, National Guard aviators have played significant roles in all of America’s wars and most of its major contingencies since the First World War era.” (Air National Guard Website, www.ang.af.mil, Accessed 2/4/04)