Fun Facts about Sarah Palin as Commander of the Alaska National Guard:
- As governor, Palin oversees military units whose duties include serving overseas, search-and-rescue missions across the state's vast landscape and manning key elements of the U.S. missile defense system at Ft. Greely.
- The Alaska National Guard is unusual in that its jobs include manning part of the U.S. missile defense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion works on interceptor missiles designed to shoot down intercontinental missiles.
- Members of the Alaska National Guard also were deployed to Iraq, and Palin visited their unit in July 2007.
- The Alaska Air National Guard, with 1,946 service members, is involved in an exceptional number of search-and-rescue missions. Since Palin became governor in December 2006, the Air Guard has flown 521 missions, saving 200 lives and assisting with the rescue of 77 more people, said Kalei Brooks, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. That's the most in the nation over that time period.
- During one declared disaster - widespread flooding in June and July this year - Palin quickly signed a disaster declaration. The Guard saved civilians by providing water tanks and 30,000 sandbags to local authorities.
What's Obama or Biden's military experience, again?
-JKD
3 comments:
So what did SHE actually do? This is like saying that W is a great military man. No, she has NO real National Defence experience and you know it.
After reading your rhetorical question, I can think of another reason you were tagged with the nickname 'knucklefish'.
This comment is from a registered Independent:
Joe Biden has more knowledge about US military strategy in his left toe than everything Sarah Palin knows (yea, I mean her entire knowledge of EVERYTHING).
Barack Obama has the intellectual horsepower and good sense to assemble a team that will guide the US military in a sensible and constructive fashion.
John McCain COULD have been a good candidate for President - I sure was hoping. However, his judgment in choosing Palin makes him highly suspect. He is no longer the Maverick that he pretends to be. He appears to be the handpuppet of the ideological wing of the Republican Party. Middle class and lower income voters should be afraid. Very afraid.
I'll take intelligence balanced with reason over stupid magnified by ideological fervor any day. The latter has held sway for the past eight years. Four more years of that and the terrorists will have accomplished their mission against the US - aided and abetted by the our government ineptitude.
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