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Originally Posted by CDAT
I cannot speak for each state, but when I joined the WA State National Guard, one of the things that they told us is that by state constitution we are supposed to help train the militia. So if we are to train the militia we cannot be the inheritors of the original militias. Now having said that I do think that to most politicians they are, and it may not be in the constitutional sense but for practical purposes I think that they have taken that role, as the "real" militia being something that they cannot control scares them.
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Today's NG's were date back to a 1913 reorganization(it took a few years), state militias hung in until the 1950's before being eclipsed by the guard.