Whoa, I think we've done enough

The South Carolina National Guard isn't too thrilled about being on border patrol this fall. Could the Guard be streched a little too thin?

South Carolina officials want the National Guard to reconsider a request for 150 troops from the Palmetto State to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border.

And, to drive home the point:

"`Whoa, I think we've done enough,'" Maj. Gen. Stan Spears, the state's adjutant general, recalled saying when he was called by the National Guard Bureau on Tuesday.

Sounds like there isn't much planning going on either.

The request caught Spears and his commanders off guard because leaders of the National Guard Bureau had said earlier that troops from coastal states like South Carolina would not be tapped for the border duty during the hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.

From The State newspaper, Columbia, SC.

We're pretty sensitive about our hurricaines here is SC.

The state's emergency plans call for deployment of at least 1,600 soldiers if South Carolina is hit by a destructive hurricane such as Hugo, which ripped into the state in 1989.

Commanders also are concerned about deploying soldiers to the border for what could be as long as a month, having them return, and then dispatching them again to a disaster area, Brooks said.