Guard, Reserve activations to continue another year

[Ilsa]

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=0-292925-2617247.php

February 04, 2004

Guard, Reserve activations to continue another year

By Jane McHugh
Times staff writer

It will take another year before the Army starts easing up its activations of National Guard and Reserve soldiers, a top general said.

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Reservists will make up 30 percent of the force when Operation Iraqi Freedom III begins sometime in 2005, said Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau. That’s down from the 40 percent participation in OIF II, which is about to get underway.

“We’re going to have a pretty high-stress environment for the next 18 months. But afterward there will be a little less angst and anxiety,” Blum told a roundtable of reporters in Washington Feb. 4.

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Other comments from the article: The General wouldn't offer any retention figures, and they said the stop-loss orders skewed that information. But he also said everyone who joined the Guard in the last three years knew they were going to be deployed.

I don't see how this announcement couldn't affect recruiting.

[depakid]

1. I continue to see commercials

touting the one weekend a month thing- how dumb do they think people are?