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Article: NATIONAL GUARD CHIEF: MORE DOMESTIC ASSETS NEEDED
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 18, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Defense's American Forces Information Service issued the following press release:
By Sgt. Jim Greenhill, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service
The National Guard's domestic equipment levels must be significantly improved, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said here Sept. 16. "We are superbly equipped overseas," Army 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 ...