My money is on the NG. Maybe 1% would be willing to do something at that moment, so ~30k individual actors against 20k of the best trained army in the world would be a turkey shoot.
I meant because he called them "the best trained army in the world." Nothing to do with the oath, it's just that many of the members of the NG are not even fit for training let alone real combat.
Having been in both i argue the NG is better in some roles. My experience is that NG mechanics are way better than active duty mechanics. They work on a lot of cars all the time; and don’t have to rely on following a -20 to diagnose what’s wrong with the vehicle. In a similar way medics, who work in healthcare (EMT, etc) as civilians, tend to get more actual experience over time than active duty medics.
NG units also tend to have a broader skill set because all the soldiers have a day job and a lot of those day jobs being useful skills. Example; my last chaplain assistant was an industrial welder in the civilian world. If our unit needed something welded while deployed he could easily get it done.
My money is on the NG. Maybe 1% would be willing to do something at that moment, so ~30k individual actors against 20k of the best trained army in the world would be a turkey shoot.
NG is not that greatly trained.
What? The 6 hours of SHARP training per drill weekend aren’t good training? My OER bullet points beg to differ.
Next month we study a PowerPoint on level 1 combatives! (I wish I hadn’t actually done that in the guard)
You greatly overestimate the National Guard.
Lots of us aren't commies and take our oaths seriously..
I meant because he called them "the best trained army in the world." Nothing to do with the oath, it's just that many of the members of the NG are not even fit for training let alone real combat.
Depends on the soldier, same as active duty.
Having been in both i argue the NG is better in some roles. My experience is that NG mechanics are way better than active duty mechanics. They work on a lot of cars all the time; and don’t have to rely on following a -20 to diagnose what’s wrong with the vehicle. In a similar way medics, who work in healthcare (EMT, etc) as civilians, tend to get more actual experience over time than active duty medics.
NG units also tend to have a broader skill set because all the soldiers have a day job and a lot of those day jobs being useful skills. Example; my last chaplain assistant was an industrial welder in the civilian world. If our unit needed something welded while deployed he could easily get it done.
Pics of fat women in the capitol lol
My bad... totally agree.
1% wasn't willing to fight. First one through the breach was killed and everyone went home as directed.
NG isn't "the best trained army in the world" though.