The National Guard Bureau needs to be done away with.
The National Guard Bureau is just one more layer of an already bloated Bureaucracy, and when the Army National Guard is called up for Federal Service, the Army National Guard is under the command of the United States Army, the Army CoS, and the Secretary of the Army.
When the National Guard is not called up for Federal Service the National Guard is under direct command of the Governor of the State that Guard Force is in, and the General in charge of that States National Guard Forces.
If the Generals want a new 4 Star General at the big table they need to see about getting an Army Reserve General as a 4 Star with Joint Chiefs authority, which would no doubt cause the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps to ask for a Reserve 4 Star and seating at the big table for their Reserve Chief.
The United States Congress had better learn how to read the US Constitution, and better learn how to follow it, or someone else who can read had better start Impeaching people.
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US Constitution Article I
Section 8. The Congress shall have the power...
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
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Article II
Section 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States;
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