Alaska Governor: States Should Look at the Militia Model as Bulwark Against Nationalized National Guard

[livingston]

Alaska Governor: States Should Look at the Militia Model as Bulwark Against Nationalized National Guard​

Six state governors gathered at SHOT Show 2022 for the first-ever Governor’s Forum hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Governors Pete Ricketts (Nebraska), Kristi Noem (South Dakota), Asa Hutchinson (Arkansas), Brian Kemp (Georgia), Mark Gordon (Wyoming), and Mike Dunleavy (Alaska) met in Las Vegas to discuss the firearm industry in their states and reaffirm their commitment to the Second Amendment.
As part of his answer to a question about how states are banding together to push back against federal gun control laws, Gov. Dunleavy highlighted Alaska’s State Defense Force. He likened it to colonial-era state militias and offered the model as a way for other states to maintain an alternative to the National Guard, which is under dual state and federal control.

“Alaska for some time, and I think other states are thinking about this as well, has had a state defense force,” he said. “It’s a little bit like the National Guard, but it’s fully underneath the state of Alaska. That’s the bulwark against the possibility of nationalizing the National Guard.”

The Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF) is an all-volunteer organization and is considered part of Alaska’s Organized Militia. The governor may activate the ASDF whenever the National Guard has been called to federal service or the Guard needs help to perform their state service. As of 2015, 23 states had organized some kind of state defense force.

Alaska Governor: States Should Look at the Militia Model as Bulwark Against Nationalized National Guard

As part of his answer to a question about how states are banding together to push back against federal gun control laws, Gov. Dunleavy highlighted Alaska’s State Defense Force.

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[togmaster]

Free states should. The socialist republic New York will not.

 

[ArmedCorgi]

It doesn't say if they are armed or have a budget for equipment/training. I'm pretty sure I was told by a NY guardsman that NY actually has a "militia", but it is not armed and is really only used to assist the Nat Guard.

 

[JaguarJaguarGolf]

It doesn't say if they are armed or have a budget for equipment/training. I'm pretty sure I was told by a NY guardsman that NY actually has a "militia", but it is not armed and is really only used to assist the Nat Guard.

It has lots of Colonels and Generals and not to many enlisted.

 

[Acer-m14]

The Militia is the People .. and i would say should be govt funded for arms but not controlled by them ..

 

[repete]

Free states should. The socialist republic New York will not.

It does, it's called the New York Guard and is totally voluntary and unpaid.

 

[SonOfSun]

The nationalized national guard? So the national guard is nationalized? No shit!

 

[ArmedCorgi]

The nationalized national guard? So the national guard is nationalized? No shit!

The National Guard is under state control by default. Different pay and under the control of that given state's governor. It can be fedralized by the president in time of war or other national emergency and they are paid by the feds at that point and under federal control.