Soldiers of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion defend America from an intercontinental ballistic missile threat 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while maintaining competency in all warrior tasks. (Photo by Sgt. Jack W. Carlson III, Unit Reporter, 49th Missile Defense Battalion.)
U.S. Northern Command brought the 100th Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense) to operational level for the first time in response to the July 2006 North Korean missile crisis. Previously maintained in test mode, the brigade, headquartered at Colorado Springs, Colorado, and its 49th Missile Defense Battalion (Ground-Based Missile Defense) at Fort Greely, Alaska, remained at high alert status for the duration of the crisis.
Gretta VanSustren interviews Major General Craig E. Campbell from the Alaska National Guard speaks of Sarah Palins actual role in commanding her state’s National Guard forces.
Wild Thing’s comment………..
The Democrats hate this so much, they truly hate it when there are so many good things about Sarah Palin. I think it is because it reminds them of how useless they ( the democrats ) are.
General Campbell certainly admires Gov Palin. His endorsement is a gold mine of information about how important the National Guards are and how important a good governor is to the functions of the NG.
The recent comparisons of trips to Iraq by Sarah Palin and Obama are priceless. On the way home Sarah Palin visited wounded soldiers in Germany while Obama went to a gym in Germany and ignored the wounded troops.
What the GOP, and most American’s miss is the fact that Alaska borders the former Soviet Union, that there is always tension between Alaska and Russia, the common border is very close, sorta like Florida and Cuba only closer, nor is that fact so readily recognized in the media. Alaska and Russia are less than 3 miles apart at their closest point in the Bering Strait where two islands, Russia’s Big Diomede Island and Alaska’s Little Diomede Island, are located. In winter it is possible to walk across the frozen Bering Strait border between these two islands. At its closest, the American mainland and the Russian mainland are 55 miles apart where Alaska’s Seward Peninsula and Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula reach out to each other. Sarah Palin has the responsibility to protect not only the State of Alaska but to alert and warn the lower 48 states of potential threats to the nation. Very few of us have seen a Tu-95 also known to Western intelligence as the Tu-20 flying over our soil. Nor have many Americans seen the Antonov An-74 and the Ilyushin Il-76 over their airspace, I have seen all three and you can bet Sarah Palin has too. She’s a damned sight more worldly than she is given credit for. Responsibility, she is not an emasculated figurehead like most governors she has already shouldered both responsibilities and with that responsibility the authority to govern. If you want a eunuch in office vote for Swartzenegger, he qualifies as a titular figurehead and is already part of the Kennedy Klan.
Tom, I agree what wonderful testiment General Campbell has to her and what she has done.
Jack, that is so true and also about yukky Swartzenegger. He is horrible and a total waste.
Palin is amazing and she is sensible when I hear what she thinks I just keep nodding and saying yess that makes so much sense. I love feeling like that again.
This is what is pissing offf the donks, everybody in that state loves this woman. I have not heard anyone from Alaska have one bad thing to say about her.
Her honesty drives them nuts.
This is what is pissing offf the donks, everybody in that state loves this woman. I have not heard anyone from Alaska have one bad thing to say about her.
Her honesty drives them nuts.