Arkansas National Guard in Iraq

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Just watched a documentary of the above engineering unit from their call-up at home to deployment in Iraq on CBC Network..Guys like turkey farmers,and other rural weekend wonders.Boy!Talk about sending lambs to the slaughter.Their trucks were Vietnam era,breaking down on their way from Kuwait to Baghdad.In the end after their year deployment,33 of their number died.AS a sidenote,from monitoring Vermont TV News rural Vermont towns have voted unanimously,to have thier Natioal Guard units returned.Vermont apparently has the largest per capita losses,based on state populations in the Guard.As Peter,Paul and Mary sang,"When will they ever learn?"