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A quick story about the National Guard: I had an Infantry Platoon from the Oklahoma National Guard assigned to me during the initial part of OIF. The platoon leader (who was 10 years older than me) came to me and asked me how I wanted my perimeter set up. I told him that I could tell him what made sense to me, but that wasn't my specialty. If someone asked me how to fire a Patriot missile, I could do so in detail...but I wasn't trained in Infantry tactics, other than Infantry Week at West Point.
Anyhow, the National Guard isn't always the most trained organization in DoD.
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