Now our Governor has called upon the Texas national guard to watch out for the Jade Helm 15 projects.
@angiekaye: Small point of clarification with big implications....the Governor has called upon the Texas State Guard, not the Texas Army or Air National Guard.
Although the State Guard fills a much needed role in the overall Texas Military Forces, time spent in their ranks does not qualify for military retirement purposes and any rank achieved is not honored by other branches should you join them. If I'm not mistaken, regardless of rank when you're called up you earn around $20 per day. I don't mean it in any derogatory way, but what the Governor is calling up is much more like Texas's army version of the Civil Air Patrol.Oh...and my thoughts on the exercise are very much in-line with a few on here already. I served 21 years in boots and we trained all over the place. Not sure why this thing is getting any run as they've been doing similar exercises for years. Since the military doesn't participate in Team Spirit (Korea) or Reforger (return of forces to Germany) anymore, it makes economic sense to find terrain similar to where the predominant threats in the world are here in the US and run your drills there. 4951