The unique nature of the guard is that a lot of the times what we get asked to do

Doesn't necessarily line up with our military job, you know, we have here in Kentucky

We have field artillery soldiers who are not shooting their rockets

They're filling sandbags or doing search and rescue or going door-to-door to check on people or doing logistics and supplies

So we have a lot of tools at our disposal and probably what makes us the most effective particularly in the state responses our ability to

Mobilize and organize and bring a sense of structure to a chaotic environment

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverz. Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics

Hello, and thank you so much for joining us for a new episode of Pantsuit Politics. One of our listeners Megan offered a very beautiful description of what we do here about our last episode

She called it a big picture reflection that helps us see beyond the current political rhetoric

And we're going to try to offer that again today by talking about the National Guard

You've probably been hearing about the National Guard in just a huge variety of context over the past few years

being deployed around protests and border issues as well as driving school buses and helping set up emergency

Hospital overflow areas during COVID

So we want to dispense in time talking about what the National Guard is and even more importantly

Who makes up the National Guard?

The people behind this incredibly diverse work offer us a lot to think about as citizens and we're excited to discuss that today with

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Martin who is the director of Public Affairs with Kentucky's National Guard

Before we share Beth's interview with Lieutenant Colonel Martin

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