A critic of investigations into a National Guard recruitment program said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Hill.TV that they are "destroying" morale.

“This is my own theory, there isn’t anyone else who’s endorsing it, but it’s the only reason that I can come up with that they have gone after 100,000 National Guard soldiers, either with an investigation, or an indictment. It’s massive," Liz Ullman, the founder of the nonprofit Defend Our Protectors, told Hill.TV's Saagar Enjeti. "It’s destroying the morale of the National Guard."

Ullman was referring to a conflict between the Army and the National Guard that stems from the creation of the National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program.

The program, launched in 2005, was aimed at solving the Army National Guard's troop shortage, and gave financial incentives to recruiters for every soldier that they brought in.

Other military branches and Congress began looking into potential fraud cases in 2013, and Ullman says the probes have led to the harassment of National Guard soldiers and a feud between the Army and the National Guard.

Last week, the Supreme Court heard a case involving a cash incentive program that was subcontracted by the National Guard to the company DOCUPAK, which was directed to increase recruitment by providing cash incentives to soldiers in an effort to bring in new recruits.

“The National Guard was the recipient of considerable funding for recruitment, for combat training, and for combat equipment, and the Army does not want the National Guard to be in that business,” Ullman said. “By destroying the reputation of the National Guard, soldier by soldier, the money is flowing back to the Army, and that is exactly what has happened."

“The recruitment budget has been steered away from the National Guard into a centralized Army budget, the Army went full on in the media saying that the National Guard didn’t deserve Apache helicopters, and wanted the Apache helicopters that the National Guard has back, and that the combat training budget has reverted back to the Army,” she said.

Hill.TV has reached out to the Army for comment.

— Julia Manchester