02 Aug 2006
General: Army Guard 'in dire situation'

We're running the largest deficits in history and we can't manage to keep our military equipped and trained in "wartime"? What the Hel have Congress and the Administration been spending all our hard earned tax dollars on, anyway?

More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard's 34 brigades are not combat ready, mostly because of equipment shortages that will cost up to $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said Tuesday.

(link) [CNN.com]

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