About 75,000 citizen-soldiers and airmen this morning are deployed all around the world.
And we're not fighting a threat-based force that we clearly understand.
Fifty-four of the 54 National Guards sent troops to Mississippi and Louisiana post-Katrina. It was absolutely the largest and fastest military response to a domestic event in the history of this nation.
Had that brigade been at home and not in Iraq, their expertise and capabilities could have been brought to bear.
I am confident that within the next 24 hours we will see a dramatic improvement
I am confident that within the next 24 hours we will see a dramatic improvement,
I don't know why the Air Force chose to do it the way they did it. This was not an unpredictable situation.
I think he's a national treasure. You talk about the 'greatest generation' and you usually think of World War II. I'm not so sure you're not looking at the greatest generation in Jordan Pierson.
in a quick and efficient manner.
It has grown, unfortunately, because the need has grown. We cannot give up on our American youth.
It's going to require at least double that for a fully equipped, fully manned Guard. Job No. 1 for us is homeland defense. You've got to equip us for that mission.
Last year, we provided more than 50 percent of the combat forces on the ground in Iraq. This is a different paradigm, a different National Guard than any of us in this room ever envisioned being even possible, let alone being practically employed.
The cavalry is and will continue to arrive.
The fact that National Guard units were deployed to Iraq at the time of Katrina did not lessen the Guard's ability to respond.
The National Guard that I joined was strategic reserve -- deliberately under-resourced, deliberately undermanned and deliberately under-equipped. That was part of our national military strategy.
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