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   From: karvatt@gmail.com   
      
   scooter, the drunken Virginia camper, insists there is a mechanism to call the   
   unorganized militia into service. Here's some info on how the *organized*   
   militia, i.e. the national guard, is called into service:   
      
   Question to Google: how do members of the national guard know when they're   
   being   
   called into service?   
      
   AI Overview:   
      
   National Guard members are notified of service calls through their unit's   
   communication channels, which include unit websites, email, and automated   
   systems. The specific notification method and timeframe can vary: during   
   large-scale federal activations or natural disaster warnings, members may   
   receive a Warning Order days or weeks in advance, while in sudden state-level   
   emergencies, they might be told to report for duty with little to no notice.   
   Communication Methods   
      
      * Command Leadership: The primary method of notification is through the   
   unit's   
        leadership.   
      
      * Electronic Channels: Information is relayed via unit websites, email,   
        automated calling systems, and toll-free numbers.   
      
      * Personal Contact: Some members may receive direct calls.   
      
      
   There is *no such mechanism* for the unorganized militia, starting with the   
   incontestable fact that there is no command leadership, and continuing with the   
   facts that there are no unit websites — because there are no fucking units   
   — and   
   governors' offices don't have e-mail addresses and phone numbers for people   
   defined to be in the unorganized militia.   
      
   scooter a few times has tried to be cutesy and suggested that my "complaint" is   
   that the unorganized militia isn't organized. But what we today call the   
   unorganized militia was just "the militia" in earlier times, and it *was*   
   organized to a certain extent. Men knew that they were in it, they knew they   
   were supposed to have guns, they knew who their commanders were, they knew   
   where   
   to go and to whom they should report if the town crier ran or rode through town   
   calling them out in response to a governor's or mayor's order. None of that   
   exists today, and no one is proposing that it be created.   
      
   scooter also lied and said,   
      
       the states have their own provisions for calling out the unorganized   
   militia   
      
   But naturally, scooter can't identify what those provisions are for even a   
   single state. Once again, scooter won't even try to support his claims. He   
   can't, because they are bullshit.   
      
   scooter told another comical lie. He wrote,   
      
       The militia isn't suppose [sic] to be or intended to be a "military force".   
      
   ["suppose" is another scooterism that needs to be added to the list. scooter   
   means *supposed*, but he's stupid. I'll bet anything scooter also ignorantly   
   and   
   illiterately says "supposably" in place of the correct *supposedly*.]   
      
   That's really funny, because scooter, being atrociously educated, relies on   
   dictionaries all the time, and every one of them defines the militia to be a   
   military force or some synonym. Here's a good one from Britannica, which   
   replaces the word "force" with "organization":   
      
       militia: military organization of citizens with limited military training,   
       which is available for emergency service, usually for local defense.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)