Crap! Local Guard Unit called to active duty

[ewagner]

<http://www.wisinfo.com/newsherald/mnhlocal/293415393252696.shtml>
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More than 1,000 Wisconsin National Guard soldiers were notified over the weekend that they'd been called to active duty.
The two battalions going active in early August include about 450 soldiers from the Marshfield, Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids areas, according to Lt. Col. Tim Donovan, director of public affairs for the Wisconsin National Guard.

One infantry battalion and one artillery battalion from the Wisconsin National Guard's "Red Arrow" Infantry Brigade received mobilization orders. In total, about 1,020 soldiers from the following units received orders for 545 days of active duty. About a year of that time is expected to be served overseas. The units are:

The 1st Battalion, 120th Field Artillery, headquartered in Wisconsin Rapids, has batteries in Marshfield, Stevens Point and Clintonville. It also maintains Detachment 1, HHS in Mosinee

I know a lot of the kids who signed up to get money for college....I'm truly concerned for their safety....most were friends of my son....

Damn!

[pocket]

1. they should have gone IRR

a month ago

[Goldeneye]

2. I know some of the people going.

Seems sort of surreal. So far only my cousin's husband...who I don't know at all...has been sent to Iraq. I hope they'll all be ok.

[natrat]

3. wow sign up for some $ and patriotism

and get fucked by greedy dihonest hypocritical monsters. I would guess a third of the money spent on this war ends up in Cayman Island accounts as they cut money for vets and deny health cccccoverage for reserve.

[murray hill farm]

5. what suprises me is....

how they held out from being sent for this long. are there more of such guard units anywhere else in the usa? Or have we now used up all the guard that is left? draft should start soon, if they have.

[whistle]

4. Sorry to hear that your community is now on active status....

...but to BushCo this is far better than any old draft system. They can have boots on the ground on the border of Iran within days instead of months.

[uppityperson]

6. Aw hang it, so sorry

Up for 1 1/2 yrs, 1 overseas? Going to be hard times and tough decisions happening for you all. So sorry.

[mgnk99]

7. sucks

yeah about a 1000 or so are going over there..maybe that will be a wake up call around here that theres to much shit going on that can't be explained by higher authorities

[ewagner]

8. Welcome to DU

another cheesehead?

:hi:

[newyawker99]

11. Hi mgnk99!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[gizmo1979]

9. My brother got orders to go in sept.

He has 21 years in the reserves and was set to retire in august.It's for 18 months!That's just nuts I told him to get a lawyer.He's got a wife and a teenage son.Bush sucks bad.

[Jimbo S]

10. On WPR Monday

Joy had as a guest a man who is in the reserves and his three year contract is up, but due to "stop-loss" he isn't being discharged and instead is to be shipped to Iraq. Right now he is AWOL.

What BS. The guy's time is up. Let him go. Honor the contract.

[gizmo1979]

12. My brother,unlike me

was the perfect soldier.Never bitched wined or complained.21 years is alot of BS to put up with and this is the thanks he gets.