http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/04/10/a2.nat.wartroopslat.0410.p1.php?section=nation_world

i wonder why the national guard was recruiting on the brickyard today before students would realize it. hmmmmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Edited on April 10, 2007 at 3:31 PM. Reason : ]

4/10/2007 3:28:54 PM

im not joining

4/10/2007 3:29:22 PM

but it opens up so many doors for you

4/10/2007 3:42:56 PM

the doors of walter reed

4/10/2007 3:51:34 PM

you don't have to go to Iraq. You get to go to Iraq!

4/10/2007 4:00:09 PM

and we'll pay for your college!

4/10/2007 4:26:34 PM

The US National Guard being involved in a nation-building exercise overseas.

Count me out as a fan. This is obsurd. More obsurd is Congress completely punting their responsibility to formally declare war, and then fund this clusterfuck with "emergency appropriations" instead of putting the spending in the budget proper. After Korea, Vietnam, and any number of smaller dustups, I would have hoped that we would have learned our lesson by now.

I know this is a wacky idea, but I'm sorta fond of the notion of actually following the US Constitution in these sorts of matters.

4/10/2007 4:29:16 PM

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"The US National Guard being involved in a nation-building exercise overseas. "

I wonder about that as well.......what's bush's logic on that one?

4/10/2007 4:31:39 PM

Before I saw that article I never would have guessed that signing up for the National Guard could have landed me in Iraq. Thank goodness I wasn't in the brickyard today or I might have signed up.

4/10/2007 4:33:48 PM

Is he sending the Texas Air National Guard?

4/10/2007 4:37:58 PM

I'm slightly biased, but I thought Korea actually worked out pretty well.

4/10/2007 5:19:50 PM

you know, the best helicopter attack unit in the army is a national guard unit. (no shit)

4/10/2007 5:23:41 PM

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"Before I saw that article I never would have guessed that signing up for the National Guard could have landed me in Iraq. Thank goodness I wasn't in the brickyard today or I might have signed up."

The National Guard has been in Iraq since the beginning hasn't it?

4/10/2007 5:34:22 PM

ummm, yes.
was the not enough for you, or should he have included the [/sarcasm] tag

[Edited on April 10, 2007 at 5:43 PM. Reason : .]

4/10/2007 5:43:34 PM

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"The US National Guard being involved in a nation-building exercise overseas. "

It's like a team building exercise in another country!

4/10/2007 6:10:33 PM

^^^National Guard will redeploy to Iraq

[Edited on April 10, 2007 at 6:12 PM. Reason : /.]

4/10/2007 6:12:00 PM

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"the doors of walter reed"

ouch

4/10/2007 7:03:10 PM

Which military do I join if I want to stay in america? Mexican?

4/10/2007 7:04:32 PM

airforce

even if you go overseas you get air conditioning and a+ cafeteria food

4/10/2007 8:21:40 PM

4/10/2007 8:34:26 PM

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"Which military do I join if I want to stay in america?"

coast guard is technically a part of the military, right?

4/10/2007 8:39:38 PM

They get sent over, too.

Someone's gotta look out for arms shipments.

4/10/2007 8:46:23 PM

i suppose, but hey, probably the easiest duty you can get in iraq if you do get deployed

4/10/2007 8:56:38 PM

Chairborne Rangers ftw.

There's no way I'd want to be on a patrol boat all day.

4/10/2007 9:01:56 PM

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"coast guard is technically a part of the military, right?"

used to be dept. of interior but changed to homeland defense.....i think

Coast Guard, jobs that matter

4/10/2007 9:04:54 PM

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"obsurd"

4/10/2007 10:59:48 PM

his spelling is obsurd

4/10/2007 11:41:08 PM

i'm telling you guys, airforce

and i'm not talking about fighter pilots

i'm talking about the other jobs

my cousin was stationed in south korea

he said he would sit inside the cafeteria and look out over the fields where the soldiers and marines slept in the mud in tents and ate their mre's (which i happen to think are delicious)

[Edited on April 11, 2007 at 1:25 AM. Reason : jank]

4/11/2007 1:24:51 AM

yea, in jrotc (air force) our instructor was a retired master sergeant and he was a bomb builder or did something with bombs, and he said where he was stationed during desert storm he got to sleep in an air conditioned building and work in AC most of the day and eat in a real cafeteria and get a good breaks while he could "look out of my air conditioned window and see the tent city where all the jarheads were sleeping in the 100 degree heat and eating mres"

4/11/2007 3:23:49 AM

when i was in the Navy i overnighted at an AFB (McChord, i think) and i swear to god i felt like i was in a 4-star hotel compared to what I was used to at my NAS.

4/11/2007 3:33:57 AM

^,^^,^^^ It is for those reasons that I utterly loathe the USAF as an organization.

4/11/2007 8:11:07 AM