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To: Webster Groves who wrote (17472)	2/7/2007 11:34:54 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 71588

wg, nationalizing the National Guard cannot be done with the snap of fingers, as you are implying. Even though the Guard is trained to a certain degree, each unit will have to go into intense combat training to perform like the standing Army. That training is six weeks at a minimum, and many of the Guard members would not be accepted in full active duty because of age, health, and family needs. Without the training, the results could be catastrophic. I was a member of the Guard rebuilding the 36th Infantry division, known as the arrow patch division. In WWII that division was in on the landing at Salerno, and Angio, and was almost totally destroyed. A unit of that division was based 30 miles north of where I lived. It was a fully manned Company, and only 3 men lived to tell their story. My wife's cousin is in the Guard and was to be deployed to Iraq, but had to go through two months of training before they landed in Bahgdad.