Disaster Planning
Obviously the start of the Hurricane Season is the time to send the Guard to Iraq. The 226th Area Support Group of the Alabama National Guard is on its way for the second time. This is a “voluntary” deployment, because it is illegal to order guardsmen overseas more than once every five years.
When does the media start calling a lie, a lie. If the military had enough people we wouldn’t be sending same Guard units over every three years.
The 226th is important to hurricane preparation because they were the unit that established the Alabama Guard command center after Katrina. They are a logistics unit that gets everything to where it’s needed.
On the other hand they can check on all of their equipment, which they had to leave in Iraq at the end of their first tour.
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Iraq? Shouldn’t they be in Arizona stopping the hordes of non-English speaking, brown, gay abortionists that want to destroy our way of life? Thank god that this hideous conspiracy was discovered just in time for the election.
Yeah, what John McKay said!
This is a “voluntary” deployment, because it is illegal to order guardsmen overseas more than once every five years.
Amazing! They send them on over, anyway, huh. Why am I not surprised?
John, such cynicism, to think they would manufacture am emergency for political purposes. At least they’ve stopped playing with crayons and alerts.
OWL, these guys are in a bad spot. After the first deployment, getting called up for the hurricanes, many of them are probably in money trouble and need the money and health coverage, so they “volunteered”.
OT: OWL, that is a very nice thing to imply that your ladies would be out in the backyard taking down zebras for lunch.