available to me as governor to perform state active-duty missions dealing with homeland security, natural disasters and other state missions.
Quotes about active-duty (9 Quotes)
If we really believe that military personnel need months of intensive training before being at their best - as logic suggests and other evidence would seem to prove - it is hard to believe that most Reservists in Iraq are really as strong as active-duty troops, especially when they first arrive in country.
What brings in the active-duty military is the fact that the disaster has overcome the state response, when the state is getting overwhelmed,
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty soldiers are now spending one of every two years abroad, leaving little of the Army left in any appropriate condition to respond to crises that may emerge elsewhere in the world. In an era in which we confront a globally networked enemy, and at a time when nuclear weapons proliferation is an urgent threat, continuing on our present course is irresponsible at best.
There are a lot of ways to go before you get to the point where you ... decide you want to give active-duty forces law enforcement authority,
The sun is setting on American dreams in Iraq what remains now to be worked out are the modalities of withdrawal, which depend on the powers of forbearance in the American body politic. But the dynamic has already been set in place. The United States is running out of troops. By the spring of 2006, nearly every active-duty combat unit is likely to have been deployed twice. The National Guard and Reserves, meanwhile, make up an unprecedented 40 percent of the force, and the Guard is in the stage of meltdown, ... the wheels are coming off.
And so, it does beg the question Do you need that kind of authority (for active-duty troops) And that's going to have to be part of the long discussion,
As an unfortunate consequence of America's war on terror, many children of our active-duty military personnel are now members of single-parent families. In most cases, this also means their chances to attend college have greatly diminished. Children of military personnel who die on active duty are entitled to receive some money toward a college education, but it is not enough.
The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program and a variation of the Thrift Savings Plan, the Military Savings Plan, being opened up to active-duty military personnel were the result of AFAP initiatives.