1.25 a.m. ET (534 GMT) October 28, 1999 By Robert Burns, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP)  Army forces have been on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia since 1995 and there is no end in sight to the NATO-led mission.

Reservists have been on duty in Bosnia from the start. But now, for the first time, the Army is putting a National Guard division in charge of a combined "team'' of active and reserve units.

The Army had announced it would send Texas' 49th Armored Division in March 2000 to command a combined team of active duty and reserve forces in Bosnia in March 2000. On Wednesday, it announced a longer-term schedule that added two other National Guard divisions for command duty.

In October 2000, the 3rd Infantry Division, an active duty unit from Fort Stewart, Ga., will command U.S. peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, including a battalion task force composed of companies from the 30th Infantry Brigade of the North Carolina National Guard and the 45th Infantry Brigade of the Oklahoma guard.

In October 2001, the 29th Infantry Division of the Maryland and Virginia National Guard will take over the command. It will be teamed with companies from the 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, N.Y., and the 155th Armor Brigade of the Mississippi National Guard.

The 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky., will take over as the active-duty headquarters in charge in April 2002, and will be teamed with companies from two National Guard units from Idaho, the 116th Armor Brigade and the 76th Infantry Brigade.

From October 2002 to April 2003, the 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard will be in command. It will be teamed with elements of the active duty 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Ga.

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-- shannon o'riordan (shannon@usa.net), October 28, 1999

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Hey se it this way.

What better way to have a fighting force after an atack then have this force spread out so thin that it would be impossible to hit them all. Active pockets of resistance are a major pain in the but to every aggressor. Hitler learned this the hard way in the 2nd WW.

-- Me (Me@me.meo), October 28, 1999.

---this is something I predicted 2 years ago on gary north forum, think relocating---there's a power struggle going on between the true honest folks in government, and what a lot of folks call the "dark forces". In order to finalize the takeover of this country, it's necessary (for the bad guys) to concentrate the dark forces domestically, and to ship over seas any of those units that would balk at draconian measures against civilians. It's happening. National guard units are much more likely to resist illegal, unConstitutional orders, among other things. This is a very general generality, but there ya go. They would leave, desert, split, or turn on their "officers" in larger numbers than the regular, politics at all cost military forces. Although, basically, I've lost any sort of trust of any .mil or .gov armed forces to have my best interests at heart. The evidence is overwhelmingly for my position. "Just following orders" and "CYA-don't rock the boat-protect you career no matter what" is, again my opinion, the main facet of these groups members......sad, too....like to think it WASN'T true...... zog the realist

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), October 28, 1999.