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Kan. National Guard to close 18 armories
Published on -11/25/2009, 10:04 AM
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Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting plans to close 18 of the state’s 56 National Guard armories. The moves will save nearly $157,000 in the fiscal year that ends June 30, and more than $260,000 in the following year.
Some of the armories will remain unoccupied while equipment and personnel are transferred and operations are consolidated.
The changes mean that 19 full-time National Guard soldiers will be reassigned to other armories, while 678 soldiers will be forced to go to other locations for regular drills.
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Armory Closures:
11/25/2009Us poor folks in rural areas are the ones who will be losing an important resource. Sure they'll be there, but it will take twice as long for them to arrive. So if a disaster has struck your rural community and it took the National Guard 24 hours to get there, you should probably plan on them taking three days to get there after 18 rural armories are closed. All the closures will probably be in Western Kansas where luckily people have learned not to count on the State of Kansas.
National Guard...Always Ready, Always There (but it will be a while)
(Posted by: Joe)
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