25 years as active duty Marine ...
Ooh that explains it all right there. See we're talking about milita, and Marines have no such equivalent. The Marine Corps is a whole different animal since they have the Navy to take care of them. The Army, which has the militia, is a complete organism, which means we have all our own pencil pushers. The only way to compare the Marine Corps with the Army is if we regard the entire Navy, not just the Navy's infantry. Person for person the Navy's infantry likely does receive more and better training than the Army as a whole because administrators who aren't expected to ever perform dismounted partoll don't need and therefore don't get all the trigger time. That doesn't mean the Army receives
no training and are not professionals, as you claimed.
So you're using unlike items in addition to claiming that no one in the militia ever receives professional training. Your errors are compounded, but Marines don't train to think in the first place, and you say you were in 25 years, so it behooves me to forgive more of your errors.
2 weeks a year and 1 weekend a month...and you think you spend more time actually doing he job than full time servicemembers?
Remember to include the civilian job as that's what we were talking about. A part-time guardsman who's a civilian EMT will need to execute his trade far more than a full-time guardsman medic. This is due to a variety of reasons such as the civilian population simply having more people, and more reckless people, who will need emergency services than an Army base. A civilian commercial driver has to be a better operator than an Army driver since the civilian is subject to more DOT regulation and inspection. The Army is exempt from a lot of things when it comes to CMV-type vehicles.
I'm not sure where you got the notion of working 8 hours a day for 4 days on active duty, but it's very ..very.. wrong...
That's what the full-time National Guard works
(remember, we're comparing like items, full-time vs part time with all else being equal, including branch). If we're talking about militia, and you want to compare full-time vs part-time, that means we're looking at full-time Guard vs part-time Guard. You want to compare part-time Guard to full-time Marine, and that's an invalid comparison since they aren't the same thing; they aren't even used in the same way or capable of the same things.
I've never heard of such a garrison schedule...
Because you're thinking Marine Corps, not militia. We're talking about militia, as in the National Guard, not Marine Corps. The Guard operates like the Army, not the Marine Corps, and in the Army we go home at night, not to garrison; as in we go back to our civilian houses in normal neighborhoods, we do not stay on base, not even the full-timers. Most Guard installations are armories
(basically a large office suite typically attached to a high-school or collage), not bases, and even those few Guard bases do not have housing at all. If there is an exception, I'm not aware of it. Everyone in the Guard goes home at the end of the day.