See that, what Henderson just said is exactly the reason why I think the Guard should be abolished and we should have Regular Army and Reserves. So many people think that the Guard's job is just to sit at home, do their thing once a week and collect a paycheck. If the Guard's only reason for existing is to protect the Homeland then there is no point in it existing, the Navy has and will continue to handle that job with relative ease. Sorry to break it to you guys, but when a nation is surrounded by 3,000 miles of ocean on one side and 7,000 on the other a land based Army will have very little say in defending the nation.
The Guard is a reserve unit, to back up the Regular Army in times of need, thanks to the effects of Vietnam the Guard is now taking a more active role in any military action that the United States takes part in. If you have a problem with this you need to get your a** out of the Guard because when/if I go into combat I don't want the guy beside me there because he thought he was joining the Guard to defend against some threat that doesn't even exist and that he thought would never come.
BTW, Henderson, was it not you who sent me several PM's saying that by going out and attacking Al Qaeda positions in Afghanistan the Guard was in effect guarding the nation from possible future terrorist attacks?