In The News
The people of Iowa need services in the Middle East this summer:
Guard soldiers gear up for mission
The Messenger – Mar 26, 2025
“The 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division, which includes soldiers from all Iowa Army National Guard units, is being called to active duty as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.”
“When the soldiers board the buses bound for Louisiana on May 29, that will be the last time they and their families will see each other for a year.”
“There will be no opportunity to visit the soldiers in Louisiana. And unlike during some previous National Guard deployments, the soldiers will not have leave time that they can use to come home, according to Guerttman.”
Operation Inherent Resolve
Mission:
“CJTF-OIR Advises, Assists and Enables partnered forces until they can independently defeat Daesh in designated areas of Iraq and Syria, in order to set conditions for long-term security cooperation frameworks.”
From Military.com:
New ‘Operation Inherent Resolve’ Medal
“Service members who serve or have served in Iraq or Syria as part of Operation Inherent Resolve will receive the new Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal. The medal is retroactive to June 15, 2014, and is for service members based in Iraq or Syria…”
National Guard recruiting would be tricky.
Recruiters are looking for people who will need to maintain a place to live and a regular job in their hometown area when they are not doing time in foreign lands helping DOD with undeclared/unwon wars and missions completely unrelated to their home state.
A few decades back, people might think of the National Guard as one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer plus a way to support your home state by being ready to get called out for floods, fires, natural disasters, civil unrest, etc. Maybe a way to help the next state over if they needed it.
Thousands of men and women who signed up for the National Guard in the past 25 years did tours in places like Syria, Africa, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo.
Would any newsperson ever ask:
Why do the people of Home State, USA need services in distant lands, absent any military emergency, national emergency, draft, or declaration of war?
Will there ever come a time when newspeople ask if there is any military emergency, national emergency, draft, or declaration of war, linked to the movement of National Guard troops to an overseas location?
Recruiting crisis for Uncle Sam? Elected officials, top Pentagon Generals and the press earned it.
The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East
During the Vietnam War, US troops were sent to Vietnam.
Today, the Ohio National Guard is sent to “support Operation Spartan Shield and Operation Inherent Resolve.”
More news:
Michigan Army National Guard to deploy troops in Middle East
By Wells Foster WNEM Mar 4, 2025
“Soldiers with the Michigan Army National Guard’s 745th Ordnance Company in Grayling will be deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Spartan Shield.”
Defend the Guard: A Constitutional Check on Unrestricted War Powers
By: Mike Maharrey|Published on: Feb 20, 2025
“Presidential administrations come and go but the war machine churns relentlessly on. “Defend the Guard” legislation can throw a monkey wrench in its cogs.”
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Respect for The National Guard
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