The Old Guard has not been deployed abroad since Vietnam.

[DuctapeFatwa]

Our military around the globe is tapped out, so strained by Iraq and Afghanistan, as the Times military correspondent Michael Gordon discovered, that a unit from the Army's Old Guard is even being dispatched overseas. The guard is best known for ceremonial duties such as standing vigil at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and serving in color guards for visiting dignitaries.

The Old Guard has not been deployed abroad since Vietnam.



http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/opinion/09DOWD.html

[flamingyouth]

1. I read this yesterday and it haunted me

How many more lives, George?!? Glad you're sleeping well at night, in between golf games and your asinine fundraisers.

[Superfly]

2. They're soldiers, too.

And I bet every one of them is as anxious/afraid to go to a combat zone as any other line unit.

B

[rogerashton]

3. The Old Guard dies. It does not surrender.

But that was Napoleon's Old Guard.

[Don_G]

4. I Know

Who will take over their duties at Arlington? Dimbo or rent-a-cops?

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Once the unknown soldiers are re-animated and redeployed in Syria

There won't be any need for a guard there.

[TAH6988]

6. It's not the entire unit N/T