As a california army national guard infantry member do they see combat overseas?

Question

will it be assisting or will i actually be there in the front lines?

Answer 1

as a member of CAARNG you WILL see combat if you get sent to a combat zone. once you get activated, you still maintain your 'guardsman' title, but you fall under command of the army and everything else that comes with it. you ARE a soldier, reserve or not. you were trained as an infantryman, so when you go to a combat zone, you will do your job.

as for 'assisting', im assuming you mean some type of support element, like driver, or doc, or something along those lines. there is that possibility, but they already have people to fill those roles. you can teach anyone to drive, i.e. a doc, a cook, a mechanic, so chances of you being taken from your 'grunt' role to fill something else is slim to none. not every soldier can become an infantryman at the snap of you fingers but in almost no time at all you can teach someone to drive or any other type of 'support' role, so chances are you and all your 11b buddies will stay at 11b status.  

Answer 2

I just checked the death statistics for Operation Iraq Freedom. There have been 18 members of the California National Guard who've been killed. It appears that only 8 of them were infantry.

A total of 440 member of the National Guard, from all the States and Territories,  have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Answer 3

yes they see combat.  not all of them, though

Answer 4

Assisting? how exactly would an infantryman "assist" someone on the frontline?

No dude, your scared of seeing action dont sign the contract cause...

You will see FRONTLINE action.

Answer 5

Some guys from an MI Bde from CA deployed to replace me.  They were on the front lines.  They had 11Bs with them.  

A lot of times, at least where I was, they made ARNG the Force Protection for the Navy who run PRTs.  Or they made them the ETT who worked hand in hand with the local police/army.