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Article: National Guard offices to be cut
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2003
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National Guard offices to be cut
Hearst News Service
Saturday, May 17, 2003
Washington -- Air National Guard and Army National Guard
headquarters offices across the country and in American-held
territories will be slashed by about two-thirds, Lt. Gen. H. Steven
Blum, the top National Guard officer, said Friday.
The National Guard currently maintains a sprawling bureaucracy
that includes 162 headquarters organizations in all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
In each state and territory, there are separate headquarters for
the Air National Guard, for the Army National Guard, and for the
Adjutants General, who are the commanders of National Guard ...