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Biden Wants National Guard Head to Be Part of Joint Chiefs
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ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Monday that he wants the head of the National Guard Bureau to become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Addressing the National Guard Association's annual conference in Baltimore, Biden told Lt. Gen. Craig R. McKinley, whom Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has nominated to become chief of the National Guard bureau, that the general would be granted a spot on the Joint Chiefs under an Obama-Biden administration.
"Sir, if I have anything to do with it, you're gonna get a seat at the table, that round table in the Pentagon where the Joint Chiefs of Staff sit, that's where you should be seated."
Gates also recommended that McKinley be awarded a fourth star, making him the first in the Guard's history to receive such an honor.
"You're gonna get your fourth star, buddy, and I'm gonna be proud, proud, proud to see you wear that," Biden told McKinley.
Biden, whose eldest son Beau is preparing to deploy next month to Iraq as part of the Delaware National Guard, made his remarks on the heels of an address to the Guard by Gates himself.
"It's a pleasure to be anywhere other than Washington D.C.," joked the DoD chief. "A place where those who travel the high road of humility encounter little heavy traffic."
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why not they are the first to go along with the army reserve
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Sep 22, 2008 7:32:14 PM
Good idea Joe, they're part of the force--a large part--and deserve a voice on teh JCS. Not that Bush listens to the JCS, but Obama and Biden will.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 22, 2008 7:51:41 PM
Senator Biden, how is it that everyone on the planet with a television knew that "America was under attack" after 9:03 on 9/11, but "no one informed" Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Richard Myers of that little fact until after the Pentagon was hit?
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/what-truth-to-power-looks-like/
Posted by: smith | Sep 23, 2008 6:15:09 AM
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