CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD.Byline: -- Rachel Uranga The Iraq war Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars. Iraq War or Second Persian Gulf War Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S. has already thinned the ranks of the California National Guard The California National Guard is the component of the United States National Guard in the U.S. state of California. It comprises both Army and Air National Guard components. , with about 10 percent of the 20,000-strong force deployed to the Mideast. Another 2,000 are either out on medical leave or not yet trained and available for duty. ``We are already stretching and are really under tremendous stress the way things are right now,'' Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] said Monday morning before being briefed on the details of Bush's plan. Schwarzenegger expressed concern that an extended commitment would hurt disaster-prone California, which relies on its Guard in cases of earthquakes, fires and mudslides. But Bush promised to draw down the number of guardsmen the Border Patrol used after one year, though he did not specify by how many. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , he promised to beef up the number of agents along the Southern border to 18,000 by 2008. Of the border states Border States The slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri that were adjacent to the free states of the North during the Civil War. , California's Guard strength is second to Texas, which has 200 more guardsmen. National Guard and Border Patrol officials declined to comment Monday on how resources would be divvied up among the states, saying they had not yet gotten orders. |
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