2Slow4U
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 | | Subject: Weekend warriors? Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:29 pm | |
| Now, more than 800,000 National Guard & Reserve troops have been activated since 9/11, and almost 90,000 are on active duty right now. Note that that number is individual activations -- many of those people are counted multiple times, since they've been activated and deployed multiple times... We use to laugh at them and call them "weekend warriors" and now we can't go to war without them... a more accurate description is "part-time warriors" because they're doing this while trying to hold down a regular job, just like everyone else... http://www.defense.gov/news/d20110322ngr.pdf | |
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Rhino Rob
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| | Subject: Re: Weekend warriors? Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:45 am | |
| bet Dan Quayle is glad it wasnt like that years ago  | |
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wvyankee2
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| | Subject: Re: Weekend warriors? Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:05 am | |
| The Militarys resources are stretched thin right now. And we need about 50,000 of them on the Mexican border.  | |
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