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DoD announces the National Guard Brigade call-ups.

By The Armorer on April 9, 2007 | | Comments (11)
The Department of Defense announced today the alert of additional replacement units for deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.These units, consisting of four National Guard brigade combat teams, will deploy consistent with the Secretary of Defense's new policy of mobilizing reserve component units for a maximum of one year at any one time.

These Reserve units are not scheduled to begin deployment until December 2007.They are receiving alert orders now in order to provide them the maximum time to complete their preparations.It also provides a greater measure of predictability for family members and flexibility for employers to plan for military service of their employees. The final determination of whether these units will deploy will be made based on conditions on the ground in Iraq.

This alert is not associated with the current troop surge. These units would deploy as replacement forces for formations currently operating in Iraq. There are approximately 13,000 personnel in these four brigades.

Specific units receiving alert orders include:

39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Little Rock, Ark.

45th Infantry Brigade, Oklahoma City, Okla.

76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Indianapolis, Ind.

37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Columbus, Ohio.

DoD will continue to announce major unit deployments as replacement units are identified. For information on the units announced today or other units involved in this rotation, please contact Army Public Affairs at (703) 692-2000.

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By AFSister on April 9, 2007 1:40 PM
I really don't like NG being sent abroad. They're supposed to be our hometown defenders.
 
By ry on April 9, 2007 1:54 PM
Yeah, the 76th. Them's local boys around here. They've taken pride in being one of the first NG units sent to Iraq and are, according to channel 56, a little mixed feeling about this deployment.
 
By John of Argghhh! on April 9, 2007 2:06 PM
I wondered if we might not hear from you two on the subject.
 
By RTO Trainer on April 9, 2007 2:20 PM
AF Sister; You're about a century behind the times. Since 1903 and the Dick Act and 1914 and teh National Guard Act, we've had the Federal mission as a reserve component of the Army (or Air Force). I'm writing from Kabul and a member of the 45th. I've been told that they won't be making us, currently deployed, go on this one, but I'm starting to think about volunteering.
 
By Heartless Libertarian on April 9, 2007 5:18 PM
BTW-that one year total mobilization time means they'll only actually be in theater for 9-10 months. Here in AC/RC land, we're still trying to figure out how to jam what used to be 84 days worth of training into 45. Some of it will get done during weekend drills, and it looks like we'll pretty much take over and run their AT immediately prior to the mob time, but collective stuff at much higher than squad level is really tough for them to do. We'll see. Of course, I'll be out of here before this takes effect.
 
By ry on April 9, 2007 7:30 PM
RTO. You take care of yourself, man. Come back in one piece; of sound mind, body, and spirit(and as many others as you think you can help, please). HL. How bad, if you can say, is the refresher going to be? How many corners are being cut, and will those cuts really impact the survival skills(like lifesaving, and such). Cultural acclimitization seems to me to be an on the ground thing anyway. I'm sure you're happy to be movin' on, but you being a Friend of The Castle we knew people were in good hands. I hope your replacement is as dedicated.
 
By AFSister on April 9, 2007 8:52 PM
It's not that I'm behind the times... I just want the NATIONAL Guard to do just that- GUARD my nation. I just believe that the Reserve should backing up the regular Army, not the Guard. Just like the Coast Guard guards our water, I believe the National Guard should guard our land. (yeah. that's coming from a Reservist's family.)\\ That being said... please do come back safe, RTO, and please comment here again. The Castle needs a new Man in the 'Stan!
 
By RTO Trainer on April 10, 2007 5:01 AM
So the Coast Guard should not have been capturing Nazi warships off Greenland and Iceland in 1942? There are Coasties deployed to Iraq right now. I understand that it'd be simpler to have the name depict the specific role, but it's just not the case. And had that been all the Guard were for, I'd not have joined.
 
By BloodSpite on April 10, 2007 7:28 AM
I won't get in to the whole "Guard stay home Reserves deploy" deploy argument. Thats been around for a long time. I look at it both ways. If you receive Federal money, at some point you have to give the devil his due. That being said I'd love to see the national Guard with a complete combat ROE between us a Mexico...but thats just me. I will say were it not for the Guard in Bosnia, we Active and Reserves would have been stretched to the limit, especially those folks in combat support positions.
 
By Heartless Libertarian on April 10, 2007 10:42 AM
Ry-from what I understand, some of the tasks that will no longer be done post-mob are indivudual level stuff-weapons qual, driver training, etc-will be returned (rightfully so, IMO) to the responsibility of the units, with us sending folks to their home station to look over their shoulder and make sure that training is to standard. And we'll likely be running training for them during AT, doing some specific collective tasks. And the length of post-mob, pre-deployment training depends on what level the collective training goes up to, as well. We've been training company and platoon size units, mostly for convoy escort and base security missions. Infantry and armor units, going over to do different missions, are going to have a different task set and should be training up t higher echelon of collective tasks. All in all, I think this whole '12 month total mob time' bit is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Yeah, the troops aren't away from home for as long, but to make up for it, now they'll have to be used more frequently, unless you find more troops somewhere.
 
By Pogue on April 10, 2007 3:53 PM
AFSIS - We are defending the home front. I prefer the violence be on the other side of the world, thank you. Heartless Libertarian - We expect to be used more often. We're OK with that. And our last mob wasted two months at Ft Dix. We could have done it in 12 months. Unfortunaltely we're not part of a Brigade Combat Team, so we're not going to find out any details about our next deployment until they get around to the piecemeal stuff.
 
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