Group calls for changes in Alaska Guard

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Group calls for changes in Alaska Guard
The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Oct 12, 2008 17:42:32 EDT

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — A report by a nonpartisan veterans group is slamming the ongoing deployments of the Alaska National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Washington, D.C.-based Veterans For America released the report after a weeklong trip to Alaska.

The report says the Guard was deployed without the proper programs in place to care for returning troops. It primarily blames “inadequate leadership.”

As 2007 wrapped up, 80 percent of the Guard had been deployed overseas since the 9/11 attacks.

About 140 members of the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment are set to start mobilizing in December.


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