[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 98 (Monday, July 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 25, 1994]
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           NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE PARTICIPATING IN RWANDA

  (Mr. MONTGOMERY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Speaker, I think it should be pointed out today 
that in Rwanda the National Guard and Reserve are participating. Some 
Air Guard aircraft C-141's, KC-135's and C-5's flown by National 
Guardsmen and reservists will be carrying supplies into that country 
where we have so many problems, so many people losing their lives by 
cholera and just not enough to eat.
  I want to make this point today. It is the total force that is 
participating, and sometimes I am not sure that the Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs and the other military personnel in the Pentagon are 
giving the National Guard and Reserve the credit they should have. They 
are out there every day when there are floods, when the people are in 
trouble at home, the Guard and Reserve is there, and now before we 
land, the Reserves are helping.
  Mr. Speaker, I think the American people should know this. We have 
cut the military too much. I hope we quit doing it. We need the Active 
Forces as well as the Reserves.

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