Majority of National Guard Units Rated 'Not Ready'
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Nearly 90 percent of Army National Guard units in the United States are rated "not ready" -- largely because of shortfalls in equipment worth billions of dollars -- jeopardizing the Guard's ability to respond to crises at home and abroad, according to a congressional commission that released a preliminary report today on the state of U.S. military reserve forces....
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The Army says it will study protective measures for supply vehicles, after members of a Reserve unit refused to deliver supplies last week.
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Some Army National Guard units may have to deploy overseas without a chaplain if recruitment incentives, including $10,000 signing bonuses, don't work to fill hundreds of vacant positions.
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The Pentagon is not adequately equipping the National Guard and has not adapted to the increasingly important security role it plays in the post-September 11 environment, an independent commission said in a report to Congress on Thursday.
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The largest Maine National Guard unit serving in Iraq doesn&#39;t have the same concerns about equipment and policies expressed to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld this week.
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A dispute has broken out between the Department of Homeland Security and unions representing Border Patrol workers and immigration officers after the publication of a survey that found that most employees believe they have not been given sufficient resources, training and support to fight terrorism.
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The shooting incident involving private security guards in Baghdad on Sunday revealed large gaps in the laws applying to such armed contractors.
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WASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps fell slightly short of its recruiting goal in January, the first month that has happened in nearly a decade, amid parents' concerns about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who refused orders to drive a dangerous route were members of one of a few supply units whose trucks are still unarmored, their commanding general said Sunday.
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Pentagon figures show that the training of Iraqi military and police units has improved since the summer but that those forces will not be prepared to undertake security missions on their own until late 2006 at the earliest, according to a study released yesterday by the Center for Strategic &#38; International Studies.
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The US Army Reserve soldiers who refused orders to drive a dangerous route were members of one of a few supply units whose trucks are still
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The Army will meet its goal of recruiting 80,000 new active-duty soldiers this fiscal year but will fall short in the percentage of high school graduates as the education level of enlistees dips below the norm of the past decade, according to senior Pentagon officials.
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The U.S. government has squandered millions of dollars intended for police training programs in Iraq because of rampant problems overseeing contractors, according to federal reviews released yesterday.
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The Marine Corps fell short of its monthly recruiting goal in January for the first time in nearly 10 years, officials said Thursday.
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The problem with President Bush&#39;s National Guard years is not that he took shortcuts, but that he won&#39;t come clean about it.
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Without the money to "reset" itself, the head of the Guard warned Thursday that the reserve force "will be broken and not ready the next time it's needed, either at home or for war."
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AUSTIN - President Bush&#39;s Air National Guard commander said he felt pressured by higher-ups to &quot;sugarcoat&quot; his evaluations of the young pilot after grounding Bush in 1972 in part for failing to perform up to standards, according to military memos