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<blockquote data-quote="Keith Lewis" data-source="post: 706252" data-attributes="member: 64291"><p>The National Guard falls under the governer's control, not the president's control. How it's SUPPOSED to work, is the active duty military goes out to fight wars, the reserves augment that with support duties, and the national guard is used at the state level to help with disasters and fill any holes domestically. There has been such a strain on the active duty with fighting 2 primary wars (when the manning can barely handle 1) that it has forced the use of reserves AND guardsman to not only augment with support duties, but to actually activate and fight alongside the active duty component in the wars.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No state's national guard is at the capacity to deal with full scale natural disasters such as the tornados in Kansas (which is what the national guard is trained for) because of the manpower issues described above.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The major problem is our nation is at the maturity level that they are fighting wars with expensive technology. While the technology is a considered a force multiplier, there still needs to be warm bodies to do the stuff that technology can't do. And with all this, it costs a lot of money to do it. I won't ever claim to have the answer to this problem, but it does need to be fixed and very soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keith Lewis, post: 706252, member: 64291"] The National Guard falls under the governer's control, not the president's control. How it's SUPPOSED to work, is the active duty military goes out to fight wars, the reserves augment that with support duties, and the national guard is used at the state level to help with disasters and fill any holes domestically. There has been such a strain on the active duty with fighting 2 primary wars (when the manning can barely handle 1) that it has forced the use of reserves AND guardsman to not only augment with support duties, but to actually activate and fight alongside the active duty component in the wars. No state's national guard is at the capacity to deal with full scale natural disasters such as the tornados in Kansas (which is what the national guard is trained for) because of the manpower issues described above. The major problem is our nation is at the maturity level that they are fighting wars with expensive technology. While the technology is a considered a force multiplier, there still needs to be warm bodies to do the stuff that technology can't do. And with all this, it costs a lot of money to do it. I won't ever claim to have the answer to this problem, but it does need to be fixed and very soon. [/QUOTE]
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