WEBVTT 00:08.720 --> 00:10.330 Okay. Okay. 00:11.330 --> 00:17.020 All. Go to Nevada national guard couldn't even attempt this. 00:17.810 --> 00:20.550 That's because at the heart of the twentieth century. 00:21.050 --> 00:24.990 The Nevada guard was more social club than military units. 00:25.860 --> 00:29.950 In 19 O five federal inspection even found that the guard was 00:29.950 --> 00:34.520 in next rather than in eight to one on order. Which led to the 00:34.520 --> 00:39.320 Nevada guard was effect or reekie mission from 19 O six to 19 00:39.320 --> 00:40.150 20 seven. 00:40.930 --> 00:43.090 At the turn of the 20 first century though. 00:44.000 --> 00:46.480 About a national guard is. Literally. 00:48.660 --> 00:53.200 Blowing down doors deploying with distinction and saving lives 00:53.370 --> 00:57.490 in times of hometown emergencies. While holding groves of the 00:57.490 --> 01:01.940 garden las vegas reno and Carson city has been essential. 01:02.560 --> 01:06.320 The guards presents an impact in the smaller towns of northern 01:06.320 --> 01:11.450 Nevada including one a mock uh. Oh Crow you only balance and 01:11.450 --> 01:12.190 hearing ten. 01:12.780 --> 01:17.120 Has also been a vital part of the Nevada guard becoming nationally 01:17.150 --> 01:20.870 respected fighting force of citizen soldiers. 01:21.900 --> 01:24.670 These five places have several things in common. 01:25.450 --> 01:29.570 Each is a smaller town in more more than Nevada with our murray's 01:29.570 --> 01:36.030 built between 19 55 and 19 62 better similar in size and those are. 01:36.920 --> 01:41.190 From the 19 fifties on the national guard units in these communities 01:41.480 --> 01:44.380 also created a legacy of excellence. 01:45.050 --> 01:50.050 As ron DC on up in in the city council men describes the soldiers 01:50.170 --> 01:54.800 in this community or top-notch are tell remand in the early 19 01:54.800 --> 01:56.750 sixties the uea guard unit. 01:57.980 --> 02:02.100 The reputation of being the mold actor up of boise Idaho lawyers 02:02.100 --> 02:03.610 were they get all we're shooting. 02:04.520 --> 02:07.400 Finally they got so all that they would me more adam she'll they 02:07.400 --> 02:10.170 had to give the rest them a chance to not the targets. 02:10.820 --> 02:14.580 Retired state man sergeant major and former your inching guardsmen 02:14.800 --> 02:20.580 jack most be your calls how in 19 85 the year 19 units was part 02:20.580 --> 02:25.090 of the death march. So remarkable even soviet union general. 02:25.090 --> 02:25.780 So noticed. 02:26.320 --> 02:28.060 The guard really became. 02:28.760 --> 02:32.270 The Returning factor of winning the cold war. 02:33.410 --> 02:37.550 Because issuer right here was a very bustle um and the Kenya 02:37.840 --> 02:40.950 we did what they call the best march we march further when in 02:40.950 --> 02:44.080 the battle state in of the world have or equipment a running longer. 02:44.640 --> 02:47.670 Than any unit in the world. I got him the writer trophy. 02:48.530 --> 02:52.170 And I read some class leg information in 90 four. 02:53.190 --> 02:56.840 They'd one one of the russian general seeing the and it was published. 02:57.380 --> 02:59.180 He says we can't we can't be fee because people. 03:00.110 --> 03:01.420 So the more let's just get down. 03:02.120 --> 03:05.800 The tragic events of nine 11 and the United States involvement 03:06.020 --> 03:10.040 in the wars and iraq and Afghanistan have brought these national 03:10.040 --> 03:12.820 guard units to a new level of readiness. 03:13.410 --> 03:17.340 Former you're eating for sargent. David dixon describes how the 03:17.340 --> 03:20.670 probe long complex has strengthened the garden. 03:22.120 --> 03:24.680 I believe it when the says improved sent me because. 03:25.280 --> 03:29.000 You know the us a bit involving two wars for 10 years. 03:29.670 --> 03:33.410 And if you look at the massive amounts of reserve. 03:34.130 --> 03:36.210 Troops that have go on the support that. 03:37.010 --> 03:38.230 The when this cast to get that. 03:39.050 --> 03:41.630 You only doesn't have the strength to be able to keep up with 03:41.630 --> 03:42.490 the up temple. 03:43.010 --> 03:45.700 That using reserve forces that the days are gone. 03:46.330 --> 03:48.880 Where you could be in the garden you just count on why do what 03:48.880 --> 03:50.350 we can a month to which here. 03:50.960 --> 03:54.780 And the national guard soldiers and these locations have answered 03:54.820 --> 03:55.840 the nation's call. 03:56.510 --> 03:59.630 The when a mock penelle quote attachments of the five 90 for 03:59.630 --> 04:04.020 transportation company are currently serving in Afghanistan after 04:04.020 --> 04:06.290 the ploy into iraq in 2000 six. 04:06.830 --> 04:10.350 It impression of the 70 second military police company in the 04:10.350 --> 04:13.300 newly deployed to iraq in 2000 three. 04:14.060 --> 04:18.090 The one to two one to 40 attachment in your ninteen deployed 04:18.090 --> 04:20.250 to Afghanistan in 2000 nine. 04:20.810 --> 04:23.090 The six so 90 engineering company afoul. 04:23.630 --> 04:26.780 Pass and deploy the yet but the train to. Fight. 04:29.930 --> 04:34.000 All these old national guard units have served their country overseas. 04:34.530 --> 04:37.200 They've also helped their of local communities. 04:37.880 --> 04:38.410 The seven. 04:39.240 --> 04:40.660 The stock was car on fire. 04:41.450 --> 04:45.410 And the crowd of people came running down the watcher they got 04:45.410 --> 04:49.500 too close show the called the guard out and will lead them former 04:49.690 --> 04:53.860 skirmish live and move the people back and about that time the it. 04:54.100 --> 04:59.780 Yeah the road unfortunately in 2007 local county in northeastern 04:59.780 --> 05:03.450 Nevada hear us almost 900 thousand makers. 05:04.280 --> 05:06.530 Destroyed during wildfire activity. 05:07.370 --> 05:10.200 And as you see the picard stepped up to the plate. 05:11.030 --> 05:14.860 Provided to us and the systems Toronto. So horrible all for that 05:14.860 --> 05:19.100 season was hacked humble incidents of a local fires thing in 05:19.100 --> 05:22.840 the re known Carson syria where is he that was mobilized and 05:23.280 --> 05:27.440 but system and putting out fires. Well used is provide people 05:27.440 --> 05:31.460 warned they would put the call out for fires the solely the biggest 05:31.460 --> 05:34.750 to vented ever happened. Here the to guard responded in major 05:34.750 --> 05:39.480 form was the flawed we've had death major events. I I get phone 05:39.480 --> 05:43.690 calls is ever to manner from guard people at this up relationship 05:43.690 --> 05:44.800 with nor. 05:45.320 --> 05:48.330 Are pure of guys are ready to go through need something sold mixture. 05:48.330 --> 05:51.560 You coffin. You didn't know what we call on a san bugs. 05:52.340 --> 05:55.470 For a lot a sand bags and stacked a lot of sand that. 05:56.150 --> 05:59.410 We also ride vehicles. I can go to someplace where the surest 05:59.410 --> 06:03.010 form couldn't get to their very pro active were maybe 20 years 06:03.010 --> 06:04.930 ago 25 years ago in peshawar. 06:05.870 --> 06:08.770 But that's all change in the last 10 15 years a. 06:09.310 --> 06:13.680 There are step and for one of the most famous and unusual national 06:13.680 --> 06:17.510 guard a rescue operations occurred around you the Nevada during 06:17.510 --> 06:20.440 the four when chic winter in the early 19 40 nine. 06:21.040 --> 06:24.380 With hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep and even some 06:24.380 --> 06:30.460 ranchers stuck in Isolating canyons and started in near continuous blizzards. 06:31.000 --> 06:36.380 DC odone details. How the national guard army and air force maybe 06:36.380 --> 06:39.600 you leave the headquarters for an unlikely rescue mission. 06:40.170 --> 06:42.640 They have what they called operation haley if. 06:43.370 --> 06:46.580 Uh uh these planes command and delivered hay bales too. 06:47.740 --> 06:51.540 No worst bunches of pavel all over the county the keep huge darwin 06:51.540 --> 06:52.000 the death. 06:52.850 --> 06:56.040 They took care of a ranchers you got 'em back up on their feet 06:56.040 --> 06:58.740 little best and I thought that would really a feather in the 06:58.780 --> 06:59.820 cap of the guard. 07:00.380 --> 07:02.240 Heroic actions of the you regard. 07:02.810 --> 07:05.870 In the other services or even made into a movie. 07:06.420 --> 07:09.080 Appropriately called operation us. 07:09.800 --> 07:12.560 As the demands on the guard had become more intense. 07:13.070 --> 07:16.230 Both the military and members of these communities. 07:16.850 --> 07:20.750 Step up to help members of the guard and their families. 07:21.480 --> 07:26.400 As dixon explains family care is essential to soldier readiness. 07:27.030 --> 07:29.310 I believe that the family was in happy. 07:30.010 --> 07:31.180 The center was unhappy. 07:32.400 --> 07:35.850 And you can get a soldier to take that additional time away from 07:35.850 --> 07:37.270 his family and his life. 07:38.380 --> 07:42.930 Without working with the san today individuals like Barbara intends 07:42.930 --> 07:47.310 Stan offer assistance to soldiers and their families. 07:47.840 --> 07:51.350 In this community you don't have to ask its people now everyone 07:51.380 --> 07:54.780 here you not that they all work together live close to each other 07:54.780 --> 07:57.400 if they know their soldiers found the come over a and they're 07:57.400 --> 07:59.710 out to dry plate. They will scrape the snow. 08:00.320 --> 08:03.150 They don't have to ask that you know the people are right there 08:03.180 --> 08:04.660 in 69 seventy. 08:05.750 --> 08:08.750 There was no family care pitted dating care about the families 08:08.750 --> 08:11.990 were now now that that's a family strenuous group setting an 08:11.990 --> 08:14.800 agenda families more involved in a realizes of a soldiers on 08:14.800 --> 08:18.360 a tory vice family. Can concentrate more on his business and 08:18.360 --> 08:19.830 worry about what's going on a home. 08:20.420 --> 08:25.240 In your ancient we constant even organized sending care packages 08:25.560 --> 08:29.670 to every member of the you're 18 calf henri when the deployed 08:29.700 --> 08:30.710 in 2000 nine. 08:31.400 --> 08:31.950 Right now. 08:32.590 --> 08:35.450 The paper that I was going to do with about to soldier. 08:36.080 --> 08:40.330 And have a meeting and people from all of a bikini came camera. 08:40.910 --> 08:43.880 And then I get their names. I matched and laughed. So they sent 08:43.910 --> 08:44.610 tacky choose. 08:45.240 --> 08:49.190 Parole about a these all mores are just there for protection. 08:49.870 --> 08:54.570 They're also a valued asset to their respective communities just 08:54.640 --> 08:59.250 being there has helped the The a school district with the with 08:59.280 --> 09:03.350 the athletic programs. I'm allowing the a wrestling team to have 09:03.350 --> 09:06.110 a facility train in the winter when temperatures get down below 09:06.110 --> 09:07.110 20 below zero. 09:07.650 --> 09:11.690 Um the drill hall provides. The perfect area for them to be a 09:11.690 --> 09:15.860 once a layout there is nice huge wrestling mats the chamber the 09:15.860 --> 09:16.950 convention center. 09:17.910 --> 09:19.490 A great nations servers grow. 09:20.180 --> 09:21.240 The four age group. 09:21.980 --> 09:24.570 We utilize it to a corporate our faults over there. 09:25.540 --> 09:29.740 The catholic church held numerous bizarre Schrage failed misplaced up. 09:30.700 --> 09:33.950 They had some much spaghetti in there that many have the be academy 09:33.950 --> 09:37.850 and feature way through for members of the about actual art from 09:37.850 --> 09:42.200 when I'm AKA to all coke to you leak test fallon key year in ten. 09:42.960 --> 09:45.200 Citizen soldier is in a slang term. 09:45.970 --> 09:46.980 It's a way of life. 09:47.810 --> 09:49.190 And their fellow citizens. 09:49.800 --> 09:50.550 Are. Grateful. 09:52.690 --> 09:58.280 Are graded that that in Nevada we care about our military men 09:58.280 --> 10:02.760 and women how serving locally and abroad and family appreciate 10:02.760 --> 10:06.590 their efforts big artists as deathly save lies and this comedian 10:06.640 --> 10:09.910 and line can specifically what mauritius a besides. Thank you. 10:11.090 --> 10:14.580 A hundred and six public affairs attachment. Of army sargent. 10:15.100 --> 10:15.960 Dichter jakes..