July 2004 · Volume XXXIII, Issue 8 |
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Cover Page
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U.S. Code changes to law, National Guard general commands federal
and state troops
National Guard Bureau ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. - This is what Terry Nesbitt would have been doing if he were a major league baseball manager. He'd have been managing the New York Yankees and the New York Mets at the same time and for the first time – during the World Series. It was not baseball, but Georgia Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Terry Nesbitt managed, or commanded, two large teams at the same time during a very public international event on coastal Georgia during the first half of June. It was the Group of Eight, or G8, Sea Island Summit for the leaders
of the world's major industrial countries. And the world was watching.
A reported 3,000 journalists from around the globe covered the June
8-10 event. The world, it was said, converged on Georgia.
National Guard Bureau ARLINGTON, Va. - It was a year ago in May when LTG H Steven Blum announced his plan to transform the National Guard into a more ready, reliable, essential and accessible force to help defend this country – at home and abroad. Blum had been chief of the National Guard Bureau for little more than a month when he told Guard leaders in the 54 states and territories, the entire National Guard family, and the national media his concept for moving the 460,000 members of the Guard into the 21st century. He calls it The Way Ahead. He calls it doing what is right for America. In a nutshell, Blum has insisted during his first year on the job,
the Guard has to change from a strategic reserve that was standing by
during the Cold War to help this country fight Warsaw Pact forces attacking
Western Europe through the Fulda Gap into an operational force that
is already actively engaged in the global war against terrorism in this
country and overseas, including Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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