Army Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, the acting director

Army Maj. Gen. Raymond Carpenter, the acting director of the Army National Guard, addresses the 132nd General Conference of the National Guard Association of the United States in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 21. “We are actually turning people away from our organization,” Carpenter said. “Who would have guessed that almost nine years into two wars we would have a volunteer Army that is turning people away?”