Good point. if it's worth doing enough will come forward. The trick is to use those who do come forward and not waste them. Resorting to the draft is an admission of failure from the start.

The bush wars that would be Kuwait...and Iraq they get full credit up until Obama declared Iraq won. Obama Wars started with Afghanistan and the return to Iraq and now the ISIS mess. the onlydifference is both Bush's got the requried War Powers Act approval. Clinton and Obama just ignored it.

Prior to those days and the invasion of kosovo for no apparent reason things were a bit more clear cut.

but the rule is start the war take the credit for the deaths and the finishing score. LBJ Truman, Roosevelt, Wilson are the four big examples of the socialist wars of the 20th century. As for E6 and below I heard of people who actually retired after 20 at that level but found it hard to believe. They would starve to death on one half base pay. And that 15 year deal with it's buy out to go back on active duty was a real scam artists wet dream for the government. All those people were on half pay awaiting call up to age 45 or 55 depending on skills. Staying read WAS their job. So why did they have to pay it back. What a crock.

Liberal Dem is an outmoded useless term. There is the government party of Socialists and Rinos...and the rest are not allowed in the game.

All states have a militia if they use it. Some are volunteer groups whose purpose is to man the armories in the event of unit deployment. In WWI and Korea aftermath local cities took many of those structures as abandoned. The participants are usually those who have retired from the Guard.

My particular beef is with the airforce refusing the ground support role and dumping the A10s. No replacement in sight or in mind. The Army should kept that as an Army Air Corps they are not much use to the infantry that's for sure without the aircraft to do the mission. Or is it a case of nerves.

Nothing new or unusual there. What was Poland, Denmark and Germany doing for the last year or ten? Practicing.

In the 70's it was routine for competitive teams sent to these contests to practice year round. In the mid 70's Southern Command then in Panama drew straws sort of and randomly selected squad size teams per each battalion size unit for the rifle, pistol, and M60 MG competition. My team of 12 were tagged and began preparation three months in advance. We also went to the actual range one month in advance and fired the course twice a day. It was no contest against teams who previously had fired for record only annually. Not only that we had more experienced veterans and zero newbies. Why? Our unit did not take them until three years of service or so as a preference. We routinely ran firing courses for other unit's. to scare off the others our last day of practice featured firing pistols at 100 meters against M16 rifles. We also knew wind and temperature conditions for each part of the day. The next level I think the Puerto Rican unit who had been shooting together for years once again took first place. All the other teams at that level were also the local Army Marksmanship Unit instructors.

We had learned the hard way to bolo or flunk the first go round on purpose to get extra practice. We had three chances. at 105 rounds each. Most of our unit fired Expert on the second or third round. A few sharpshooter and none at the lowest Marksman level. The same applied to most any kind of ordnance. The funds weren't there for that level of practice.

Add to that over deployed people who have been denied pay raises or COLA adjustments by a 'grateful nation' there is a certain give a stuff attitude.

Now tell me how many wars that same military has lost recently? Answer. None. The one's you are thinking of were given away or given back etc.

Treat your military despicably you find they soon despise you.

And now everyone is in a panic. how droll how typical how despicable.

Milita and National Guard are two entirely different things.the first is purely a state organization. the second is a quasi but on call federal reserve.

Not a lot of miitary expertise in this forum I can tell.

The republicans can afford to make nicer noises at funerals. The death rate of us service personnel in wars started and operated by them is at best 18:1 with the Democrats killing off more of us for nothing. If you are on a long deployment how do you become unemployed?
Also when the deployment is over the current version of the law protects the returning National Guard or Reserve who must be given his old job back and any promotions or pay raises. the only time limit is upon release from active duty there is a time limit to report back to work in the old civilian job. Many reservists welcome the active deployment precisely because they had no civilian job.

Militias are a state level only formation and not part of the active or national reserve forces The words national guard say national for a reason. they are not militia. If any party does have respect it's going to be the RInos the only part of the military that likes the socialists are female voting for Hillary.