Hmmm What happens when the LA Ntl Guard getes back...

[Flavin]

From Iraq in the, I think, 2 month-ish, and the area is still a disaster, no one nows who's alive, or in Huston, or rotting in their attics, or accidentally swept into the 'holding camps", and your home is gone, your civi job is done, etc.

Add the fact they weren't allowed to come home early, which would have been do-able in about a week or two.

Wanna bet they get posted to some far away installation like Wyoming (in the winter) or New Mexico for "debriefing" for months and months and months....

hey we might yet get a rolling revolution of angry battle-twitchy vets...

Flavin

[patrice]

1. For a lot of Guard, Katrina is the sort of thing they signed up for.

This is going to be very frustrating for them. I wonder if the reorganization of the National Guard, which started during the year previous to our invasion of Iraq, will control, or buy off, that frustration.

[Eloriel]

2. OMG. You're right. Also, your family and friends scattered to the

wind. There won't even be any way for some of the to tell what HAPPENED to their family and friends.

[Igel]

3. They'll want to know that the 2/3 or so of the LA NG that was

in Louisiana did. First and foremost. I would think.

Of course, those that would have lived in NOLA would have had difficulty responding to the mobilization call.