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National Guard members are feeling the effect of the shutdown
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Oct 14, 2013
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National Guard members are feeling the effect of the shutdown
The Oregon National Guard is delaying training for more than 1,000 troops scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in the spring because of the shutdown.
A US Army soldier attached to 2nd platoon, C troop, 1st Squadron (Airborne) ,91st U.S Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team operating under the NATO sponsored International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrols near Baraki Barak base in Logar Province, on October 13, 2012. NATO has insisted that there was no move towards a speedier withdrawal from Afghanistan despite recent setbacks, including deadly insider attacks, as the alliance prepared for its post-2014 role.
More than 1,000 members of the Oregon National Guard who are scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in the spring aren't being trained because of the government shutdown.
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The Oregon National Guard is delaying training for more than 1,000 troops scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in the spring because of the shutdown.

One of the many effects of the partial government shutdown is military training.

While the Pentagon has the funding to train units that are immediately deploying to Afghanistan, there isn't money to fully train their replacements.

In Oregon, the National Guard has delayed training for more than one thousand of its members scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan next spring.

Capt.  Stephen Bomar  with the Oregon National Guard said when the guard members  do resume weekend training - they won't be getting paid just yet.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, a senior fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations, has been writing about the effect of the shutdown on the National Guard.