Contact information for:
Senator Wyden
Senator Merkley
District 2 Representative Greg Walden
Email information: https://walden.house.gov/contact-greg/email-me
The following was sent to Oregon’s Congressional delegation, Senators Merkley & Wyden and for District 2 Representative Greg Walden. It also went to candidates for D2 Alex Spenser and Cliff Bentz.
Bring Oregon’s National Guard Home, We Need Them Here Now!
Oregon has been hit with serious challenges between COVID and large loss wildfires. Right when we need our Oregon National Guard’s response with “all hands on deck”, we don’t have available the full force. Oregon National Guard are deployed overseas in Afghanistan and other war zones. This includes CH47 Chinook helicopters which should be here with soldiers fighting wildfires. With all the fires in the west, we find resources are thin. Emergency officials are saying there are not enough firefighters and equipment to properly fight these wildfires.
The National Guard in each state is 95% funded by the federal government. The President can choose to federalize National Guard troops at any time. When that happens, the troops are no longer National Guard: the soldiers become regular Army or regular Air Force when they are deployed.
Things are dramatically upside down and out-of-whack. It is time to return Oregon’s National Guard now. We need them home as tragedy continues to unfold!
Rogue Valley FCNL Advocacy Team
FCNL is the Friends Committee on National Legislation www.fcnl.org
Daniel Guy, Ivend Holen, Wes Brain, Brenda Gould, Allen Hallmark, Susan Doherty, Steven Vermie
