Meanwhile Pentagon is preparing to send 800 unarmed members of the 98th Army Reserve Division from Rochester New York to Iraq to train Iraq’s new army. The 98th Army Reserve unit is a non-combat unit that doesn’t have its own weapons or vehicles. It normally trains reserve and active duty soldiers in the U.S. Leaders of the Reserves are worried about the deployment. Lt. Gen. James Helmly, chief of the U.S. Army Reserve said, “This is a hard war and we, frankly, inside the Army Reserve have been not properly prepared for it.”