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Beginning with this law, each National Guard member has two military statuses—a member of the National Guard of his or her state, or a member of the National Guard of the United States when ordered into active duty. This enhanced the 1916 Act's mobilization provisions, making it possible to deploy National Guard units and individual members ...
History of Military Mobilization in the United States Army 1775-1945 (US Army, 1955) online; not copyright because it is a government publication. Lusted, Marcia Amidon. The US National Guard (ABDO, 2015) online; Mahon, John K. (1983). History of the militia and the National Guard. New York: Macmillan. OCLC 9110954., a standard scholarly ...
The Army National Guard (ARNG) is an organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.It is simultaneously part of two different organizations: the Militia of the United States (consisting of the ARNG of each state, most territories, and the District of Columbia), as well as the federal ARNG, as part of the National Guard as a whole (which includes the Air ...
The National Guard (or National Guard of a State) differs from the National Guard of the United States; however, the two do go hand-in-hand. The National Guard is a militia force organized by each of the 50 states, the U.S. federal capital district, and three of the five populated U.S. territories.
The Minuteman model for militia mobilization married with a very professional, small standing army was the primary model for the United States' land forces up until 1916 with the establishment of the National Guard. [24]
In 1933, Congress finalized the split between the National Guard and the traditional state militias by mandating that all federally funded soldiers take a dual enlistment/commission and thus enter both the state National Guard and the newly created National Guard of the United States, a federal reserve force.
The National Army was formed from the old core of the regular United States Army, augmented by units of the United States National Guard and a large draft of able-bodied men. [36] Moral standards, and the morale of the troops, was the concern of the Commission on Training Camp Activities .
National Guard (United States), military reserves organized by each of the 50 U.S. states, territories, D.C. and administered by the National Guard Bureau; Army National Guard, a reserve force of the United States Army which functions as the ground component of the state-level militia while not in federal service