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Deployment of Reserves and National Guard

The Department of Defense is sending more and more Reservists and National Guard into combat zones, with nearly 47,000 National Guard and Reserve forces in the process of being notified that they will be activated to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan. These so-called weekend warriors are seeing long deployments on the front lines of what has become a guerrilla war. What does this mean for their jobs and their families? What is the administration's vision for how to use the Reserves and National Guard? Have they become a stopgap force because America has a downsized standing army? Hal Kempfer, occasional analyst for ABC channel 7 and Marine Reserve Lieutenant Colonel, Secretary Wade Sanders, Chair of the Leadership Council of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, and Greg Dinse, high school history teacher and a Lt. Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, join Host Larry Mantle to discuss the topic.