In a message to Robert Linenweber  Karl Schneider wrote:
 KS> However, that rank is only effective within the state organization,
 KS> not in the US [Army, AF, etc.]
True, but it does clearly illustrate the basic underpinning of the NG, 
politics.  Not that the political brush does not touch the rest of the 
military, but the NG is drowning in it.
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