State Rep. Lee Deming of Montana responds to op-eds critical of the Defend the Guard Act, confronting the authors' dishonesty and requesting that detractors value the lives of Montana National Guardsmen as beyond price.
Task & Purpose, one of the largest publications covering news about the United States Armed Forces, reports on the passage of Proposition 6 in Texas and Republicans' overwhelming support for keeping the National Guard out of undeclared wars.
State Senator Wendy Rogers, a twenty-year U.S. Air Force veteran and lead sponsor of the Defend the Guard Act in Arizona, has an op-ed responding to false attacks about the bill.
Del. Pat McGeehan of West Virginia, who first introduced the Defend the Guard Act in 2015, is both discouraged by how much Middle America has suffered during the Global War on Terror but is hopeful for the bill's passage in the new year.