HeyEng

It's amazing how upper managment in the unit buys the Big Blue party line, "If you get sanctuary, the active duty can sent you ANYWHERE! ANYWHERE!" and trys to scare you with lurid tales of the AD shanghaing helpless Guardsman and sending them to a foxhole in Afghanistan, come on really! first off as a flyer for over 20 years and having only a year and four months to get 7300 points, I already have a short tour for overseas, if I get mobilized I'm going to be deployed and get dwell time when I get back and can't get deployed and besides the AD does not want some 33 plus year crusty SMSgt showing up in their "day care" squadron! Plus as a Guardsman if you get sanctuary you become an AGR. All the flyers I knew who got sanctuary ended up staying in their units.

Heard a nasty rumor that for next year's festivities (i.e involuntary mobilization) the Guard Bureau is looking for a way not to activate anyone who is in the Sanctuary Zone. If this is true what’s the point of signing Sanctuary letters anymore if they kill the one chance of getting Sanctuary. This is all through the grapevine so I don’t know how true it is but I’m willing to bet Big Blue is all worried about a handful of Guardsman and Reservists getting an AD retirement and is starting to put pressure on units to keep people from getting Sanctuary.

I have been unable to access the Aircrew Pubs Library either on .mil computers or at home for several weeks now. This was really nice to be able to access at home since I'm a Guardsman and live away from the Guard Base. Anybody else have this problem? or did they take the site down when we went to iPads?