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Re: National Guard
Don't forget our other VP - Al Gore and his "service" and also our
last President's avoidance of service. There seems to be enough
of that to go around with the latest batch of politicos. I hope this is
the last on this topic and back to more interesting stuff of the
Korean War.
Jon Stevens
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Scott
> To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:49 AM
> Subject: Re: National Guard
>
>
> Excellent point Gene.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: walter e wallis
> To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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