Is the U.S. military relying too heavily on National Guard and Reserve forces?

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1645: Oliver Cromwells army routs the kings army at Naseby.

1775: The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.

1777: John Paul Jones takes command of the Ranger.

1777: The Continental Congress adopts the design of the present U.S. Flag.

1862: Confederate cavalry commander J.E.B. Stuart completes a four day ride around George B. McClellans Army of the Potomac in the area of the James Peninsula.

1863: A small Union garrison in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia, is easily defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia on the path of the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.

1940: Parisians awaken to the sound of a German-accented voice announcing via loudspeakers that a curfew was being imposed for 8 p.m. that evening-as German troops enter and occupy Paris.

1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Naval Expansion Act.

1951: A single communist Polikarpov PO-2 biplane dropped bombs on Suwon Airfield and another PO-2 bombed a motor pool at Inchon. These attacks marked the beginning of enemy night harassing missions that soon became known as "Bedcheck Charley."

1951: The destroyer-minesweeper USS Thompson was hit by communist shore battery fire suffering three sailors killed and three wounded. Having sustained 13 hits, the Thompson barely managed to escape out of range of the North Korean guns.