Adjutants General Association of the United States

HASC Gives Guard Half A Loaf; Will SASC Provide The Rest?

WASHINGTON: This week, the House Armed Services Committee gave advocates for the Army National Guard about half of what they wanted. Next week, a staffer told me, the Senate Armed Services Committee may look at giving the Guard the other half. But because Guard backers have taken very different approaches in each chamber, it’ll be […]

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

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National Guard Commanders Rise In Revolt Against Active Army; MG Rossi Questions Guard Combat Role

The battle between the regular Army and the National Guard, which we all knew would blow up one of these days, has blown up. At 3:30 this afternoon, the spokesman of the 54 state and territorial Guard commanders, Kentucky Adjutant General Ed Tonini, raised the standard of revolt against the active-duty leadership who had, he said, “slammed their […]

By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.