Are reserve units getting a raw deal?

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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory/2345677

Officials worry that deployed reservists face shortcomings in their equipment, training, treatment
By MICHAEL HEDGES
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

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"You would expect the government to give you the best if you were going in harm's way, but the fact is the Guard is not getting the same equipment and training as the active-duty forces," said Mike Cline, executive director of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard. "The Guard and Reserve get what trickles down."

By late spring, nearly 40 percent of the combat forces in Iraq and Afghanistan will be drawn from the reserves and National Guard as the Pentagon spreads the burden from an active-duty military that has shrunk over the past two decades.
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The article has a long list of complaints about reservists being deployed with substandard materials, protection, and equipment. I'm glad this article was written so hopefully people will wakeup to how Shrub is shorting them yet expecting more and more, including the type of work they must do with inadequate training.

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