SOURCE:
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/GWVIS_May2007.pdfThe Non-Deployed data is annotated as "ERA". You can find a flow chart in the report on their page 2. In the flow chart is says "ERA - Non-Deployed Service Member 8/2/90 - Present.
Now, if you look at the definition in the report of what Deployed means - Active Dute and Activated Reserve Forces Only, 8/2/90 - Present ---- no mention of guard at all.
Also, paragraph 8 on their page 4 gives the following:
Some of the veterans identified in this report had prior active military service. Therefore, not all of the claims counted in this report were incurred during the Gulf War period or deployment to Southwest Asia. VBA's computer systems DO NOT attribute each of a veteran's disabilities to a specific period of service or deployment.
Also note:"These counts reflect raw data that has not been subjected to any statistical analysis nor has it been adjusted in any way to make it a mortality study. There has been no adjustment to account for age, gender, race, and other items required for a valid mortality study. In addition, the data will not reflect deaths that occurred afte March 2007. The use of these data to draw conclusions regarding mortality rates will result in inaccurate conclusions. For analysis of Gulf War verteran mortality, see "Mortality amount US Veterans of the Persian Gulf War: 7- Year Follow-up, "Han K Kang and Tim A Bullman, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2001, 154(5): 399-405.
So, this is really a jumble of data that unless further broken down is meaningless as far as mortality stats.
I'm going to see if I can find the Mortality report I referenced above. If I do find it, I'll come back and put a link here.