Alaskan National Guard faces manning woes

[Nonno (Premo)]

Palin’s National Guard faces manning woes - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times


WASHINGTON — The Alaska National Guard, which Republicans are pointing to as an important national-security credential for vice presidential choice Sarah Palin, has personnel shortages that make its aviation units the most poorly staffed in the nation.
Just six months ago, Air Force Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, the Alaska Guard’s top officer, warned in an internal memo that “missions are at risk.” The lack of qualified airmen, Campbell said, “has reached a crisis level.”
The situation has improved since the March 1 memo was written, Campbell said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press — but not enough to eliminate his concern that shortages will result in the “burnout” of troops the Guard already has. That could result in missions and equipment being moved out of Alaska.

The Air Guard’s problems, while important in Alaska, aren’t a major national defense issue. The Alaska Air Guard’s 176th Wing is about 300 members short of the 1,598 airmen it is authorized to have, according to Campbell’s office. Its other primary wing, the 168th, has 641 airmen, about 70 fewer than it needs.

[ImnoMensa]

Geez ,did you happen to check on the boyscouts to see if they are fully staffed/.???

[ylexot (Premo)]

Has Palin been slacking in her duties at the recruitment center? Or maybe you're saying she should have had a couple hundred more children so they could fill the positions?

[Penn]

Originally Posted by ImnoMensa

Geez ,did you happen to check on the boyscouts to see if they are fully staffed/.???

Psst! He's still checking on that info - from the DU website.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by Nonno

Palin’s National Guard faces manning woes - Army News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Army Times

When are you going to learn to read your links before you post them? Turns out Palin is is more supportive of her National Guard than are most governors.

The situation has improved since the March 1 memo was written, Campbell said Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press ....

Campbell is due to receive a third star on Sunday — a promotion approved by Palin, who has authority over the Alaska National Guard. He described Palin as very supportive of the Guard, but said she gives him latitude to manage the force. Governors typically do not have a direct role in day-to-day operations.

[Penn]

Originally Posted by Lenny

When are you going to learn to read your links before you post them? Turns out Palin is is more supportive of her National Guard than are most governors.

Ahem, Lenny - he doesn't CARE if it's a valid story or not!

He's a shaitt stirrer, and that's all you have to know!

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by Penn

Ahem, Lenny - he doesn't CARE if it's a valid story or not!

He's a shaitt stirrer, and that's all you have to know!

...when Annoyboy posts in his Nono MPD, he continues to mindless scatologic patterns as before. The only option is to stop reinforcing all five of the MPDs of this idiot, but it's so hard to get out of the teacher mode.


:must-resist-temptation-to-point-out-deception:

[Penn]

Originally Posted by Lenny

...when Annoyboy posts in his Nono MPD, he continues to mindless scatologic patterns as before. The only option is to stop reinforcing all five of the MPDs of this idiot, but it's so hard to get out of the teacher mode.


:must-resist-temptation-to-point-out-deception:

Dude! That is some heavy shaitt, right there!

[Vince]

Originally Posted by Lenny

When are you going to learn to read your links before you post them? Turns out Palin is is more supportive of her National Guard than are most governors.

You should know better. Nonno never checks facts.

[Penn]

Originally Posted by Vince

You should know better. Nonno never checks facts.

One has to understand the rationale of it all: these guys scan or scrounge, various bits of far-left liberal news items, that dovetail into their way-off-kilter perceptionality.

It does not matter if it's been "cooked-up" by some lib whacko, with his or her own personal agenda, that's the way it is.

Oh, BTW, is there any BIAS in the stories they post; one way or the other?