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**elektikaka** · 12-03-2011, 11:06 PM

They are getting TWO seats? You don't see how absurd that is? Next every Reserve Chief will want a seat, then every base commander. Nothing like rewarding incompetence.... Nothing against that Guard or those that serve in the Guard but it seems like they couldn't get their house in order and are being rewarded with not one but two seats at the big boy table because of it...

No, the Guard will only get ONE seat, and that General will represent both the Army and Air Guards - at least that is what the article says - and - if it follows the precedent of the NGB General and the State Adjutant Generals, that seat will rotate between Army Guard and Air Guard. The Generals for the Regular Army and Air Force will retain their seats, which is why there will alternately be two Army or two Air Force Generals on the JCS.

As to the Guard getting its house in order, it was the Constitution that forced the Guard to be beholden to the Federal Government to the point where the Federal Government is required to pay for Equipping, Training, and Paying the members of the Guard. Unfortunately, until the arrival of Desert Storm, the Guard was treated as the Army and Air Force's "Poor Relations", normally sending Hand-Me-Downs to the Guard whenever the First Teams got new equipment. Fortunately, that changed with Desert Storm. As for Incompetence, I cannot speak for all Guard units, but mine was anything but incompetent. Most of our members had served in Vietnam, and so had a good idea of what to expect, both from any enemy we might encounter, and from the Regular Army itself, and we came home with a very decent record, no accidents, and no losses.

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elektikaka Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 614 Senior Member	They are getting TWO seats? You don't see how absurd that is? Next every Reserve Chief will want a seat, then every base commander. Nothing like rewarding incompetence.... Nothing against that Guard or those that serve in the Guard but it seems like they couldn't get their house in order and are being rewarded with not one but two seats at the big boy table because of it... No, the Guard will only get ONE seat, and that General will represent both the Army and Air Guards - at least that is what the article says - and - if it follows the precedent of the NGB General and the State Adjutant Generals, that seat will rotate between Army Guard and Air Guard. The Generals for the Regular Army and Air Force will retain their seats, which is why there will alternately be two Army or two Air Force Generals on the JCS. As to the Guard getting its house in order, it was the Constitution that forced the Guard to be beholden to the Federal Government to the point where the Federal Government is required to pay for Equipping, Training, and Paying the members of the Guard. Unfortunately, until the arrival of Desert Storm, the Guard was treated as the Army and Air Force's "Poor Relations", normally sending Hand-Me-Downs to the Guard whenever the First Teams got new equipment. Fortunately, that changed with Desert Storm. As for Incompetence, I cannot speak for all Guard units, but mine was anything but incompetent. Most of our members had served in Vietnam, and so had a good idea of what to expect, both from any enemy we might encounter, and from the Regular Army itself, and we came home with a very decent record, no accidents, and no losses.
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