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On 1 May 1997 04:51:18 GMT, joesylvester@nospam.texoma.net. (Joe Sylvester) wrote:

>IOW , you don't have clue. Even before Perpich, the Governor had no veto over 
>federal activation of the Guard. The Perpich case determined that even 
>active-duty for training (which is supposed to be the responsibility of the 
>States, under the Constituion) was beyond the authority of the Governor.

True. Case-in-point: several years ago, there was put through channels from the active Air Force to
my National Guard unit a specific request for me to be detached from my National Guard unit and
assigned to an active Air Force unit to assist in the ramp-up to Operation Desert Storm. The
Goveorner of the State of Texas, not being in the chain of command, had no option in the matter. My
reassignment was blocked by my commanding officer, since the same batch of messages also contained
our unit's pre-alert for deployment. (149 Tactical Fighter Group [F-16], Texas Air National Guard,
San Antonio TX)

>Guard, and Reserve for that matter, members serve in one of three 
>statuses(statii??). Inactive Duty training (usually weekend Drill), 
>Active-Duty for Training (typically the two week "Summer Camp") and active 
>duty. In the last status, active duty, members *become* part of the active 
>military, they are issued new (green) ID cards to replace the Red ones they 
>carry when in either "training" status.  

Partially correct. Green IDs are/were issued only if the active-duty time was to exceed 179 days.

>Prior to Perpich it was assumned that the Guard "belonged to" and answered to 
>the governor when not federalized, or called to active duty. Perpich 
>established that even when ordered to  active duty for training, the governor 
>had no control. I suspect that the same would have been held for inactive duty 
>training status, if for example a governor objected to his Guard being used 
>for Drug interdiction work as part of their inactive duty training. 

In fact, wasn't Perpich the result of the governor objecting to Guard troops being sent to Honduras
to be used in anti-drug interdiction efforts?

>For the guard there is another status, state active duty, used mostly for 
>emergency relief and the like. In this status the troops do answer to the 
>state chain of command. 

Also correct. (255 Combat Communications Squadron, Mississippi Air National Guard, Gulfport MS [on
the coast, hurricane recovery])

Bill

(maybe I should add my military stats to my .sig...)

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