Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "America Needs a Space National Guard" video.

@AtlantiansGaming No. The Army and Air National Guards already have Cyber warriors on staff. They protect the states from cyber attacks.
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Except no, it doesn’t. No state mission for them, no state weapons systems. Space Force Reserves, on the other hand, do make sense.
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A Guard unit is owned by the state and cannot be turned into a reserve unit, in ANY branch of service.
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@jamessanders8895 It IS true. Even in time of war when members of the National Guard are activated for Title 10 (National) duty, they remain National Guard soldiers and airmen. They do not become Army or Air Force reserves. They are on federal duty, but still assigned to their Guard units. There is a HUGE difference between the National Guard and Reserve and you don’t know it. Next time ask instead of attempting to teach.
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You should know better. What state mission is there for them? What state assets? None. Why would stares pay for them? NORTHCOM provides the states with all the satellite data they may want and need and any other asset too.
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It’s not a size issue. It’s a title 10 issue and a funding issue. There’s no peace time mission in it, and thus no point in states spending money on training and equipping them to operate federal assets. If a state wants satellite photos it simply asks for them via NORTHCOM.
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Negative. Guard units need to have state missions during peace time. Otherwise there is no point in them being under state command/control. For the point of having access to the satellite data, the satellites don’t belong, and cannot belong to any one unit as they traverse the planet. It’s different than a C-17 that’s based in a single place. The USSF already makes those satellites available through NORTHCOM anyway.
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@jamessanders8895 No, YOU are incorrect. I spent 18 years in the Reserves and the National Guard. Learn not to speak when you’re ignorant. National Guard units are activated for active duty, never part-time duty, by either the state (SAD) of federal (Title 10) governments. They DO NOT turn into Army or Air Force reserves. EVER! There is no process for it and all of our laws on the military expressly prohibit the federal government from taking away Guard units. They can only federalize them in time of need, and only on defined, limited basis. Once under federal orders for active duty, the soldier or airman remain members of the National Guard and still belong to their home Guard unit, but are temporarily attached to other units or deploy as an entire Guard unit. They stay administratively and financially separate, ALWAYS. Even in basic and follow-on training, Guard units pay for their members’ training to the actual branches. The money comes out of their unit budgets. In return, the departments of the Army and Air Force transfer funds and equipment to State Divisions of Military and Naval Affairs or Military and Veterans Affairs, whatever each state decides to call them. Again, Guard NEVER become federal reserves. Reserves are ENTIRELY separate things under separate commands and separate budgets. Reserves are covered by different policies and laws. For example, Army Reserves are not combat arms specialties, while Army National Guard can be. Reserves cannot enforce laws, but Guard members can. They receive different points and benefits too. You are incorrect about the ownership of Guard units. They always have been and always will he owned by the states, but in return for some funding and equipment, may be appropriated by the federal government, TEMPORARILY. This is CLEARLY outlined in the National Defense Act of 1916. The Act expanded the President’s authority to mobilize the Guard during war or national emergencies here or for service in different parts of the world for the duration of the event that caused the mobilization. Previously, the 1908 Militia Act authorized the Guard’s use overseas and the 1903 Militia Act established the first National Guard. No law has ever stipulated that National Guards are owned by the federal government. In fact, that goes against the very mature of our Constitution and federal law!
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@Paladin1873 Your argument is that a task that a Guard unit can be performing under federal orders can be given to a different unit? Sure it can. Any military unit’s tasking can be given to any other military unit, even a foreign one. What’s the point you’re trying to make with that comment? The Space Force is trying to grow in size and is asking Reserve members who might be interested in going Active Duty to do so. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, the long-term plan for the USSF is to have reservists of their own, but not a separate Reserve command. I see nothing about ANG. In fact, in an article dated 23MAY24 on USSF website titled “Space Force to accept Air Force Reserve volunteers for full-time positions” it says, “The PMA does not currently apply to space units and personnel currently resident in the Air National Guard; however, Guard members could expect a similar process to their Reserve counterparts after authorized and appropriate legal and policy changes.”
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@PavewayJDAM Then you can’t rely on any Guard unit to deploy and if you can’t do that then why spend federal money on the Guard?
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@Paladin1873 You’re wrong on three points. First, the National Guard, by the law that created it, IS a militia. Second, the National Guard is PARTIALLY funded by the federal government. Its day-to-day operations, routine training and state missions are funded by the states. Third, the National Guards are not a part of the DoD. They are represented at the DoD by National Guard Bureaus, but each state’s National Guards are part of their states, so not the DoD, the same way as State Guards are not part of the DoD. National Guard units and personnel come under the command of the DoD once federally activated, but they are not owned by them.
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@Paladin1873 The federal government cannot defund a Guard unit unilaterally, so your point is wrong. It’s a process that involves BRAC and the state. “As proposed” isn’t what’s happening. Propositions are just ideas. That said, there is no guarantee on what specialties a Guard unit will have, so the unit can be switched to something else.
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@Paladin1873 And none of that happened because no one would sign on to that. It was just a plan of the Chief of Staff who overstepped his authority.
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@Paladin1873 The Guard is a reserve style organization, but it is NOT the Reserves, which is a separate and distinct organization, and since you were never either and don’t know much about it, you should stop telling people about it and instead ask, so you can know more. Perhaps learn to read better instead of trolling.
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@Paladin1873 Good night. You’re done.
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So could the Space Force Reserve.
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You can’t do Space National Guard. Space doesn’t belong to any state, nor do any satellites. It’s not like an F-16 that’s based in your state. Guard units also have to have state missions during peace time, but guiding and protecting satellites is a federal task because they are federal property. You cannot expect states to fund any of that. For satellite availability in state and national emergencies, please refer to NORTHCOM. That’s literally its job.
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