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<text id=91TT0254>
<title>
Feb. 04, 1991: Caught With Their Guard Down
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Feb. 04, 1991 Stalking Saddam
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
Caught with Their Guard Down
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<p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> President Bush last week praised the 100,000
"citizen-soldiers" serving in the gulf, but apparently the
Pentagon doesn't fully share his enthusiasm for reservists.
Even though the government has spent 10 years and $100 billion
training the National Guard for war, Army brass has so far
refused to deploy the Guard's fighting units. Reservists
represent almost 50% of U.S. combat capability, but Army
reservists say they are being shut out by turf-conscious
commanders. Air Force reservists are handling vital support
missions in the gulf; so are Guard backup units, including
medical teams, truck drivers and supply companies. But the
three armored brigades that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
called up have been stuck Stateside since November.
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</body></article>
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