"Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message
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Dave Stadt wrote:

It has been a week since we up here in IL got word NO was likely to get
hit
bad and still the NG is not there in any significant numbers. Doesn't
the
military have a better communication system than relying on commercial
telephone. It's pretty sad.

Do you think every NG soldier gets a field radio when they sign up?

I don't know what they get but it is nuts that the NG relies on the
commercial phone system to gather its troops. If terrorist knock out a few
phone company exchanges I guess they win because the NG can't call its
troops to come perform their duties. Pretty lame way to guard the nation in
my book.