With the military lowering its recruiting standards, and increasing troop deployment to the Middle East, one is forced to ask the question when will we run out of troops? Bruce Falconer writer for Mother Jones magazine outlined the ever-increasing problem with our lack of troops, and military equipment in his article titled "Weakened Warriors". Falconer blames the Bush administration for putting this enormous strain on our military suggesting we have too much war and too few soldiers. With many troops now spending the minimum time at home and maximum time in the Middle East our military forces here at home are stretched dangerously thin. Currently 80 percent of our National Guard and Reserve troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan at least once while many soldiers are facing extended tours due to "stop loss" orders. All of this in the wake of Hurricane Gustav, which made landfall earlier in the week displacing millions of Louisiana and Mississippi citizens in dire need of assistance from National Guard troops who are currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. With soldier suicides at an all time high, post-traumatic stress disorder affecting one in five returning soldiers one must question the sheer number of troops in the Middle East in relation to the number of troops or National Guard helping hurricane victims stateside.