Operation Desert Storm

If the Army is to confidently rely on its National Guard combat forces in future conflicts, it must work to correct the fundamental problems that have hampered these reserves since long before the Persian Gulf war. During post-mobilization training, the Army discovered major deficiencies in the abilities of National Guard brigade units, which remained in a training status until the war was over. GAO testified that peacetime training did not adequately prepare the brigades for their wartime roles, the Army's readiness information greatly underestimated the amount of post-mobilization training needed to ready the brigades for deployment, and adverse impacts resulted from the incompatibility of the National Guard's peacetime systems with those of the active Army.