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US army planning for 4 more years in Iraq
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-21 09:49
August has been the deadliest month of the war for the National Guard and
Reserve, with at least 42 fatalities thus far. Schoomaker disputed the
suggestion by some that the Guard and Reserve units are not fully prepared for
the hostile environment of Iraq.
"I'm very confident that there is no difference in the preparation" of
active-duty soldiers and the reservists, who normally train one weekend a month
and two weeks each summer, unless they are mobilized. Once called to active
duty, they go through the same training as active-duty units.
In internal surveys, some in the reserve forces have indicated to Army
leaders that they think they are spending too much time in pre-deployment
training, not too little, Schoomaker said.
"Consistently, what we've been (hearing) is, `We're better than you think we
are, and we could do this faster,'" he said. "I can promise you that we're not
taking any risk in terms of what we're doing to prepare people."
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