Why are we talking about giving the National Guard another job to do?

As a Guardsman, I feel we are pretty stretched thin. I%26#039;m looking at my second deployment in the next twelve months and I%26#039;ve only been in a little over three years. Thats a deployment every other year. I really have no desire to spend my little time in the states guarding the border, which I am neither trained nor qualified to do in my current MOS, or just about any other MOS I am legally allowed to train in since I am a female (yet I%26#039;ve still been asked to volunteer several times).

Why, when we are obviously willing to train any Guardsman to do this job, dont we train civilians to do it? With the unemployment rates like they are, it shouldnt be hard to find people for the job. And with the Guard stretched so thin right now, what with the fighting two wars right now with record low enlistment and retention rates thing, why are we giving them yet another job to do?

If they send me down there, I%26#039;m letting the Mexicans in.

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Bravo to ur question.always wondered this myself.I mean its gotten so bad that now congress is suggesting that people who apply for citizenship do a tour of active duty in some branch of the military.and yet the few military personnel we have is stretched too thin.I for once thank you for all the hard work ur doing,because of people like you and others that serve in the military is the reason people like me and others on here can sit in front of the pc and rant.

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You tell them girl! You are sooo right.They want extra jobs for americans. Here they are.|||You should be hanged as a Benedict Arnold|||If you are truly in the National Guard and you are sent to guard the Border and you let them in, you will be court martialled. You would be failing your duty.

The National Guard%26#039;s first priority is to protect the USA on our own soil. You should not be in the National Guard if you can%26#039;t do the job you swore on oath to do.

If you represent the attitude of the National Guard (which I don%26#039;t believe) civilians would be a better choice to guard it. I would go down there gladly after I whooped your sorry @$$ and I%26#039;m a Grandma!!

You%26#039;re just a coward!!!! There are already women on the Border as Border patrol and as Minutemen (women)!!!!!!!!

We just need a bunch of pi$$ed off Grandmas, some ticked off soccer Moms and some bad-@$$ biker broads and we%26#039;ll take care of the g-d@mn BORDER problem!! We%26#039;ll show you some REAL %26quot;WOMAN%26quot; power!!|||train anybody and everybody, get an American biker gang the job of patrolling the border, give them free reign to control it anyway they want!! you disgust me, being an american soldier and you%26#039;d do that to your country.|||ya know...it should be like this....all the National Guards are away from home enough already...once they finally get home...let them stay there...their families are much more important than anything else in the world.....

If they wanna continue building the wall on the border...then those that %26quot;I%26#039;d%26quot; the bill should be the ones standing along the border leaving their families behind.|||If you disobey a direct order you can be charged with an article15,lose rank and pay.if you continue you can be

tired and if convicted, lose your freedom and all your benefits.Think long and hard about what you just wrote here.I find it hard to believe that you would write something like that on the computer.

Then you shouldn%26#039;t have joined the Guard,if you don%26#039;t want to do your job.You make me ashamed for all women.|||I believe you took this oath, linked below.

If you%26#039;re not willing to do what the oath calls for, then maybe you should seek to remove yourself from the service. The regimental and proven hierarchy of military is essential for the continuation of a free state. That%26#039;s what%26#039;s required, that%26#039;s what you swore to uphold and that%26#039;s your job, not what you %26#039;feel%26#039; it is. When you are the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or the Governor empowered to call on the Guard, maybe then you can pick/choose your assignments, but military and civil law dictates otherwise. Thanks for your service and hang in there.|||have mixed emotions about Iraq - but if we have to be there then why not the National Guard - you were paid money %26amp; benefits before the war but now that you actually have to do something other than a weekend a month %26amp; 2 weeks in the summer you are complaining? If the guard is stretched too thin then complain to the government. Who the h*ll do you think has been paying you to do the job for us if not civilians? We do not need traitors to our country in our military - let the mexicans in along with the terrorist that should make you very proud! Do you have enough moxie to tell your CO you intend to betray America %26amp; Americans?? Weren%26#039;t you a female when you signed up or cashed those govt. checks....|||If you let Mexicans in, you are NOT doing your job. You would be neglecting your duty and committing treason.

When Americans join the armed forces, they agree to follow orders. If you do not wish to follow orders, you could just get yourself out of the guard.

Having NO GUARD would be better than having a guard who would willfully disobey orders and purposely do the opposite.|||Why did you join? Just a good way to meet guys plus good dental!