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Hello? Hello? Reality Check here ... this is not your father's National Guard or Reserves.

With regard to the National Guard and Vietnam - it was a well known fact that the Guard was not used extensively in Vietnam. The Reserves were not used extensively in Vietnam. Neither was used in Vietnam because they were not necessary - the entire configuration of the services was different back then, and the Guard and Reserves of that era provided only a redundancy that was not necessary to fight the Vietnam War.

Add to that fact that the government did not want to attract any more attention to the war than was already being done, which mobilization of those units would certainly have done. Consequently, Guard and Reserve billets were often difficult to get during the Vietnam War. In many places there were waiting lists for positions in them - and you needed some pull to get in in many places. They were a good place to hide out if you had the pull and/or the luck to get in and had the misfortune to get a draft notice, or you blew out a couple of semesters of school and they were likely to come lookng for you.

Part of the very reason the services are configured the way they are today - with the Guard and Rerserves serving an integral role in military planning - is to prevent another attempt by the government to sneak us into a war.

Reagan and Wayne did what they did; Jimmy Stewart did what he did. You want to call that putting in the same bit, it's your right - it's a free country. Me, I like to see a little action behind the roles they play.