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We're talking about a hypothetical federal law, and so the militia in question would be on the federal level. To my knowledge the National Guard Of The United States is the only federal militia.If we're nitpicking, the National Guard is part of the militia. Here in Virginia we also have the Virginia Defense Force, which does not go through the same training as federal forces.
It's how my entire battalion works. You can take any complaints you have about that to Obama and his budget cuts.Maybe you were in a ridiculous unit on active duty (if you ever were), but that's not true for most.
NCOs show up early to take care of most of the paperwork. All of Saturday is MOS training. The first half of Sunday is PT/nutrition-class. The second half of Sunday are all any death-by-power-point.And how much of the drill time is spent on actual MOS training as opposed to PT tests, filling out NCOERs, the annual firing range, and all the ridiculous briefings and trainings etc? About half the year you get actual MOS training and practice.
Most of us do. We're an engineer battalion, we have tons of soldiers with related construction/CDL/firfighter civilian jobs. The few who don't, like cops, still have their place as we're going to absorb MPs into our company over the next 4 years. Remember the L.A. riots? The soldiers who responded to that? They were a headquarters platoon, not infantry. I know because one of them became my reediness NCO.Only if you do the same job as a civilian.
I never said '4 hour week'. It's a 4 day week. It's been the standard for the last 5 years.What unit did you serve in that only did a 4 hour week?
Then you were in one of the better National Guard units.And my time active duty we went our time doing vehicle and equipment maintenance, crew drills, basic soldier skills, physical training, etc. All part of the job.
Exactly zero, my state does not maintain infantry at all, unless you count MPs, which are about to be absorbed into engineer companies as their companies are retired.How many civilian 11C or 19K do you know?
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