Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 5:33:54 GMT -6
Four communities around North Dakota are coming to grips with bad news from the North Dakota National Guard.
Guard units in Mott, Rugby, Bottineau and Grafton will be dissolved, and it fell to recently appointed Adj. Gen. Alan Dohrmann to tell community leaders this week that their long relationship with guard detachments will end in August 2017.
Dohrmann said the cutbacks are necessary because North Dakota lost federal authorization for 300 guard positions as part of a national strategy to decrease overall guard numbers. With slightly fewer than 3,000 guardsmen and women, North Dakota is more than 400 below its authorized strength and it was tough to argue for positions it hasn’t been able to fill, Dohrmann said.
Besides the four announcements this week, the guard dissolved units in Oakes and Cando, effective in February, and Dohrmann said two more communities will soon learn that units stationed there are being relocated.
Read more: bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/north-dakota-towns-to-lose-national-guard-units/article_13b4ae98-f1e5-5ca4-a4e7-f9aed872a0db.html
Guard units in Mott, Rugby, Bottineau and Grafton will be dissolved, and it fell to recently appointed Adj. Gen. Alan Dohrmann to tell community leaders this week that their long relationship with guard detachments will end in August 2017.
Dohrmann said the cutbacks are necessary because North Dakota lost federal authorization for 300 guard positions as part of a national strategy to decrease overall guard numbers. With slightly fewer than 3,000 guardsmen and women, North Dakota is more than 400 below its authorized strength and it was tough to argue for positions it hasn’t been able to fill, Dohrmann said.
Besides the four announcements this week, the guard dissolved units in Oakes and Cando, effective in February, and Dohrmann said two more communities will soon learn that units stationed there are being relocated.
Read more: bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/north-dakota-towns-to-lose-national-guard-units/article_13b4ae98-f1e5-5ca4-a4e7-f9aed872a0db.html