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Article: National Guard, Army To Align
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- September 14, 2000
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ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
AP Online
09-14-2000
National Guard, Army To Align
ATLANTIC CITY (AP) -- The Army's eight National Guard combat divisions will for the first time be aligned with active-duty Army corps, to focus their training on specific wartime and other missions, Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, said Thursday.
The change, which Shinseki announced at a meeting of the National Guard Association of the United States, will further erode the notion that Guard members are mere ``weekend warriors'' with little chance of shipping out for war.
The change reflects Army leaders' search for ways to make better use of the National Guard at a time when the active-duty ...