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State Calls on the National Guard to Drive School Buses

Another new mission for the National Guard.

If you find yourself driving a bus and you belong to the National Guard, you might be in Boston!

“Massachusetts Calls On The National Guard To Mitigate A School Bus Driver Shortage”

I’m not sure that it was ever envisioned that the National Guard would be deployed to drive school buses. What is happening is that governors have discovered that they have a very flexible workforce that is highly motivated and organized and can be thrown into the breach of any disaster, emergency or, in the above case, need.

I’m wondering if staffing daycare facilities might be next.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.