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Mike, no they were not. The NG units called
into Active Duty during the KW were from all segments of the Army National
Guard from most States. The only NG Infantry Divisions ordered into Active
Duty on 1 Sept 50 were the 28th, 40th, 45th, and Alabama NG (can't recall the
Numerical Designation). The 28th (PA) and 31st (Ala?) were
eventually sent to Europe while the 40th (CA) and 45th (OK) were sent to Japan
and eventually into Korea. ( I was a 45th Thunderbird myself)
However, many, many, smaller NG units were called
up and thrown into the fray early in the war---Artillery, Maintenance,
Transportation, Medical, Air Force units of all kinds, Signal, etc., etc.. In
addition many units were stripped of certain personnel who were sent
directly to Korea as Replacements but this practice was eventually stopped as it
severely weakened those units of their key personnel (most were WWII
Re-Treads whose experience was badly needed).
Berebitsky gives a good accounting of the NG's role
(s) during the war and his book reflects the depth of his research.
This is the best accounting of the National Guard's activities I have
seen.
Bill Scott
Co. G, 179th RCT
45th Infantry Division
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:26
PM
Subject: National Guard
A Very Long Weekend: The Army National Guard in
Korea,
1950-1953
By William Berebitsky
The White Mane Publishing
Company, Inc., P.O. Box 152,
Shippensburg, PA 17257. Copyright 1996.
mentioned 43 NAtional Guard units. Were they all from
the 40th and 45th
Infantry Divisions?
Mike
from
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030402-50912743.htm
National
Guard deployment highest since Korea
Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published April 2, 2003
The National Guard
was once thought of as weekend
warriors, but is now seeing its largest
deployment
since the Korean War with nearly one-quarter of its
troops
serving overseas.
In addition to new deployments
to Iraq, nearly
100,000 Guard members are serving in
Afghanistan,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Sinai Peninsula
and
Panama.
"They're scattered all over the
place," said John
Goheen, spokesman for the National Guard
Association
of the United States. "They are not sleeping at home
any
more. They have left their jobs and their families
to go around the world
on active duty."
That leaves more than 300,000 to
guard the home
front, and 40,000 have already been alerted that they
may
soon mobilize, but most states have plenty of
forces available for homeland
security, Mr. Goheen
said.
Though the war
against terrorism has caused
relatively few casualties in total, the two
Guardsmen
who have died in it were killed under
high-profile
circumstances.
Maj. Gregory Stone,
40, of Boise, Idaho, was the
first casualty of the National Guard and died
on March
22. He was killed, reportedly by an American Muslim
soldier who
is said to have thrown a grenade into his
tent at Camp Pennsylvania,
Kuwait. Maj. Stone was
assigned to the 124th Air Support Operations
Squadron
and was serving as an air-liaison officer with
ground
commanders.
On Saturday, 24-year-old
Staff Sgt. Jacob L.
Frazier of St. Charles, Ill., who was assigned to
the
169th Air Support Operations Squadron, was killed in
an ambush in
Afghanistan.
As many as 1 million Guard members
and reservists
can now be called to serve two years under an
order
President Bush signed just days after the September 11
terrorist
attacks. However, Mr. Goheen said the
Defense Department wants to avoid
long periods of
service overseas.
As of March
26, according to the Pentagon, nearly
217,000 Guard members and reservists
have been
activated to serve at home and abroad: more than
150,000 Army
National Guard and Army Reserve members,
33,000 Air National Guard and Air
Force Reserve
members, nearly 10,000 naval reservists, 20,000
Marine
Corps reservists and 4,000 Coast Guard
reservists.
A Defense Department spokesman said
deployment is
in a "fluid process" and could not give the total
number
of Guard members and reservists
deployed
overseas.
In addition to overseas
duties, 4,000 of New
York's 17,000 Guard members and 7,000 militia
are
helping to guard bridges, tunnels, train stations,
subways,
international airports, nuclear-power
facilities and the Canadian border,
spokesman Scott
Sandman said.
In California,
the National Guard is on its
second rotation since the terrorist attacks
guarding
such high-profile landmarks as the Golden Gate Bridge
and
international airports, Capt. Denise Varner said.
"Their attitudes are still so wonderful, they are
so patriotic and believe
[in] what they are doing and
not blinking an eye," Capt. Varner
said.
When Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge
raised
the terrorist alert from elevated (yellow) to high
(orange) on
March 17, he urged governors to call in
the Guard for extra
protection.
Ordinarily, governors call up the
Guard for their
states to handle disasters or emergencies, and Mr.
Ridge
said he wishes to respect that custom.
At least 13
governors have declined to call up
their state's Guard
units.
Democratic Washington Gov. Gary Locke has
been
critical of the administration for not giving his
state nearly a
billion dollars he says is needed to
fund homeland-security measures, but
said funding is
not the reason he declined to deploy troops for
added
protection.
"I made it very clear we will
spend the money and
whatever is needed to take care of security needs
here
at home," Mr. Locke said yesterday.
"I'm not reluctant to deploy and cover the costs
of everything on a case by
case basis, but given the
classified information from the Homeland
Security
Department and other federal agencies ... there were
no
specific targets of people, places or installations
in
Washington."
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