[Cannoneer No. 4]

Why is that an insult? Should they have been first? War is a come as you are affair. Active duty combat arms got the IBA first. NG CSS in units that hadn't been activated since 1945 got it last. How would your Basis of Issue Plan been any different?

[RobbyS]

The probelm was that they were there and being shot at, just like regulars. Not that the veterans among them didn't know how to scrounge what they needed, but since the army knew they didn't have enough bodies to accomplish the mission without the guard and reserves, they shouldn't have let paper work/indifference get in the way. It is always a mell of a hess when people know that there are warehouses full of stuff they need and they can't get them through channels.