‘Overuse’ of N.J. Guard decried

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‘Overuse’ of N.J. Guard decried
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 19, 2007 5:19:04 EDT

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine says an impending large deployment of state National Guard troops represents an overuse of the citizen soldiers, undermining their purpose.

Maj. Gen. Glenn Rieth, the state’s adjutant general, said Thursday that the state’s 2,400-member 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will join a New Jersey Air National Guard squadron in Iraq in 2008, meaning more than 3,200 New Jersey troops will soon be deployed.

The upcoming deployment will be the largest in New Jersey National Guard history, representing about half of the state’s 6,200 troops.

An embedded training team, two aviation units and a military police company will also be deployed, Rieth said, with all units mobilized for a year.

“We will ensure that our soldiers are fully mission capable and ready to deploy, and that their families are taken care of back home,” Rieth said.

Rieth said training begins immediately, and Corzine said the troops will likely be in Iraq starting in June.


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