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May 16, 2003
Guard to combine states’ Army, Air Force headquarters
By Amy Svitak
Times staff writer
The National Guard will combine its Army and Air headquarters offices in each state into individual joint headquarters by Oct. 1, a senior National Guard official said Friday.
Army Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, says that the Guard must transform to meet the new threat of terrorism at home and abroad. Part of this effort will involve combining each triad of state National Guard headquarters into a single joint office, Blum said at a Pentagon news conference.
Currently, the Guard hosts 162 headquarters in 54 National Guard entities across the country. That “is too excessive,” Blum said.
By Oct. 1, the Guard plans to eliminate 108 of its headquarters locations. The effort will help the Air and Army units better train for joint operations.
“We are not now training in a joint environment,” Blum said, although both Air and Army National Guard units operate jointly at home and overseas.
Savings from the consolidation likely will be used to fund current readiness shortfalls in the Guard. Members displaced by the effort will be redirected to other units to help address critical manpower shortages in Guard operations nationwide, Blum said
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Oh great on the day I get back into the Ga. Guard and assigned to a HQ. unit I have to read this! Ha-ha, maybe I can convince them to let me go back to my old LRS unit!
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Hey JMPMASTER,
What unit are you with now? Are you down at the Ogelthorpe armory?
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
http://www.partamian.net/blog/
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