Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The AD needs to be the AD. The reserves are surge capacity for contingencies, not a replacement for costly AD force structure (which needs to much more responsive than guard/reserves).
Somehow I don't think that the senior brass will ever grow a big enough pair to tell Congress that we can't/shouldn't 'do more with less,' so I doubt this paradigm shift (back to the way things used to be) will ever occur
