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...That’s news to us, just as well as everyone else,” freshman guard Alek Blankenau said of the report...
Monday's announcement by the Pentagon that it may call up to 13,000 National Guard troops for duty in Iraq was something of a milestone. Several thousand of these troops would be going to Iraq for a second time - the first return trip for large units of the National Guard since the war began...
...have a good handle on whether or not the surge plan championed by Army General David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is working. The 30,000 extra troops, largely dedicated to Baghdad, are designed to secure the capital and let the political process take root. While the Guard deployment announced Monday is not part of the surge, by the time those soldiers board airplanes bound for Iraq it should be apparent whether or not the surge is working. Older and a more integral part of their local communities, these politically potent soldiers are not going to be pleased...
...Guard forces normally report to their state's governor, and are often used for national disasters at home. But they can be federalized - and become part of the deployed overseas Army - if needed. It's one thing for such part-time troops to be called to action in the early days of a military campaign, when the gung-ho spirit and patriotism are at their peak. But it's quite another to be sending these people with established careers and lives outside the military back to Iraq in the war's fifth year. Because former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld kept...
Next week, Specialist Mario Lozano of the New York National Guard will be tried for murder in absentia in Italy. The charge: the killing of Nicola Calipari, an Italian intelligence officer, at a Baghdad checkpoint on March 4, 2005, where Lozano was stationed as a gunner. Calipari had been escorting Giuliana Sgrena, an Italian journalist just freed from kidnappers, taking her to the airport and onward to Italy...