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Article: NATIONAL GUARD'S DOMESTIC RESOURCES MUST BE IMPROVED, CHIEF CLAIMS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 18, 2006
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The U.S. Army issued the following press release:
By Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau
The National Guard's domestic equipment levels must be significantly improved, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said here Saturday.
"We are superbly equipped overseas," Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum told the 128th National Guard Association of the United States General Conference. "The Soldiers want for nothing as far as equipment in the combat zone, and that's the way it should be."
But the domestic picture is less rosy. "We are now in a dangerously low resourcing level for missions back here at home, and that must be seriously addressed," Blum said.
Talking to about 2,500 National Guard officers ...