Posted on Jan 30, 2014
Taking all attack assets out of the National Guard and placing them in active duty. Good idea or not?
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One of the more controversial decisions in regards to Army Aviation is the proposed move to take all attack assets (AH-64s) from the National guard, and placing them in the Active component, completely phasing out the OH-58s, and augmenting the guard with more Blackhawks. Now I see many flaws with this plan, but Id like to get your opinions as well. Is this an effective cost cutting decision, or does anyone else see the eventual implosion we are headed to?
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...im sorry, but being guard myself, I feel that the current standard of the guard is higher than it has been in its history. There should be no "taking of assets" from guard units. If you come in and take our Bradleys and Abrams what do we become, dish washers? Sooo many times ive heard negative on the guard...during my first enlistment we were called "no go's" as fallout from Vietnam when guard wasnt deployed, those days are gone. The guard is a capable, effective force that serves dual roles and needs to be left in place as is...my opinion
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I know when it comes to the Guard, many of the Guard Soldiers are also civilian maintenance techs, and therefore their aircraft tend to be better maintained than ours. I dont agree with this course of action one bit.
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SSG M,
It is about the politics and money, instead of making the cuts at the top (Pentagon), they do it at the SM level and equipment/training, if we cut Congress's salaries and benefits in half we would be closer to being in the black than 5 years of DOD cuts.
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I completely agree with you, no one is willing to make the hard sacrifice so they pass the burden onto us. Its only a matter of time before our training, our equipment, and our force is a shadow of our former selves, unable to even defend our own borders
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No- because what happens if you deploy a NG unit- now to give them ATK support, you have to task an AD unit. Then all the training for working with each other has to start all over again. When in the 82nd, we knew how the 82d CAB worked, what they needed and what the provided and we trusted them to do danger close. Would you want to do that with a strange unit?
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