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IT was Draft Dodging by HOW they got put in the
National Guard
Ted Williams served in WW2, then joined National
Guard. Then fought in Korea.
Ted Williams FOUGHT.. the pretty boys kepted thier
pretty faces.
There is NO Comparison to the sacrifice Mr. Ted
Williams did
and what GwB and Quayle got away with.
One of the many
fradulent things that went on during the Vietnam CONFLICT
The two silver spoons were politically
appointed to the NG.
Everyone knew that in 1968 and know about it
now.
This was a big angry rage withthe American public
back then.
Yet, they were not the only congressmen sons
who were picked for the Boy Scouts
BY putting Ted Williams and comparing those
two "wet ones" is damn shameful.
You have defined what a man is and what boys are.
Gwb and DQ are BOYS..
Dan Fahey
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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:49
AM
Subject: Re: National Guard
Excellent point Gene.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:34
PM
Subject: RE: National Guard
When people denigrate the National Guard service of Bush or
Quayle I always
told them to tell Ted Williams that National Guard
service was draft
dodging.
Gene
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From: owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu
[mailto:owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu]On
Behalf Of Mike Yared
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:27 AM
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu
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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