Guardsmen Say They're Facing Iraq Ill-Trained

More troubling, a number of the soldiers said, is that the training they have received is so poor and equipment shortages so prevalent that they fear their casualty rate will be needlessly high when they arrive in Iraq early next year. "We are going to pay for this in blood," one soldier said

The lack of equipment part is understandable. The military is preparing them for the realities of what they the will face in Iraq.