Tension between National Guard and Active Duty Army?

There will always be tension b/t Active & Guard.

My almost 18 years & 3 combat tours have shown me that Active will always look down on the Guard. I've worked with Active duty guys on combat tours & at home. And from my experience they are no where near as experienced as Guard cause they don't get to dl actually do their job in a real world setting (except for a few Mos that are real world jobs). We put trucks on the road with civilians all the time. Learn to drive on all terrain, in all weather types. We learn the limits of our vehicles & equipment. Cause we use it during hurricane, tornados, floods, wildfires, combat exercises, etc. Our equipment gets used & abused. Our soldiers get real world experience with their equipment. I talked to a few active guys when I volunteered for a NTC rotation, he told me they never take out their equipment or are able to do anything outside a training eveiornment cause their active & their constraints as such.

Now does that make us better than Active, no. It makes an essential asset to the mission. Both @ home & overseas. (we could lose the Reserves, they don't less than anyone

I served 25 years in the National Guard with 3 combat tours,90/91 05/06 08/.09. With that being said I was a 95B20 MP when we arrived in Saudi Arabia and got to our camp thinking we would be ready to start our mission, AC engineers were supposed to have built our epw camp,but no they didn't know how to do it ,we built our own camp enclosure, but I have served with many good men and women in both AC and NG.the NG soldiers were more prepared because we had to know our job,the AC get displaced because they do the same thing day after day, both components have very skilled soldiers so what is the fuss we all achieve the same goal.

I served with the Co C 205 Engineer Battalion Combat Heavy, Louisiana Army National Guard 88-96.
What set us apart from most Regular Army units was for a lot of our members we did our MOS jobs in the civilian world. when we went to "Annual Training" We preformed and did our duty and completed the mission we were tasked to do.What pissed me off the most was the term "training" when we were deployed to Honduras and Jordan we did not train. We did the job we were trained for and we did it Damm good.
I am so proud of the men and woman I served with!

I just never paid much attention, when I was in Vietnam, we all had a job to do, and we did it.

When I was on active duty in the late 70s, we kind of looked down on the reservists, but on reflection, I think it's because they were so underfunded and didn't have many opportunities for training. That has since changed. My cousin did two Iraq deployments with the National Guard and I believe reservists and active duty were pretty much interchangeable.

Been there done that, served six years in the Marine Corps, and six in Army National Guard. Yes those in the Guard we're older because they had just got back from the Nam and had more experience than the younger ones that were trying to teach you what you already went through

I would suspect the NG readiness has improved since I did my 3 years after active duty in the early 80’s. My unit would not have been ready for deployment

Poking fun at the guys in the reserves is part of being AD. There are many reasons they may not be as fit but that aside it should not be taken seriously.

Please don't be dismayed....look at it like this...I can harass may brother but let someone else mess with him.....get it? We are all in this as one...one team one dream!