~90% funded by the USG only to serve the States?I suggest the the sheer cost of todays fighters to replace those F-16s (And F-15s) plays a part. Pointing out that F-16s are of little use to a Governor is just sugar coating reality.I suspect that will accelerate. It should. Hopefully, they'll get a handle on the stress factor.A big focus for the ANG now is DGS - the ground station exploitation from UAV's, U-2 and other aircraft.As, IMO, the Army Reserve should be while the ARNG remains a strategic reserve. The mid-80s movement of all Cbt units away from the USAR was a bad deal for the nation.On the reserve side, the trend is toward "associate" units where reserve units are colocated and partially integrated with active duty units. The reserve is now, for all intents and purposes, an operational and not a strategic reserve.
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