State Defense Forces

[JeanNYGUARD]

YOUS HEAR ABOUT THESE GUYS?

SITES THAT STATE DEFENSE FORCE CAME UP ON GOOGLE:

http://www.homeguardarmory.com

http://www.virginiadefenseforce.org/

[Sarge]

State Defense Forces are the last line of defense of our Armed Forces

Ya ok [:D]

What would be that last line of defense? Nuclear Holocaust !

Just what we need , a bunch of Want -A- Be’s running around playing army, that have all of a week of training in some back woods compound.


LMAO [:D]

[robpost3]

Just dug my bunker, bought a case of spam and evaporated milk---Sign Me Up!

[Terminus]

I don't just wish he'd stop shouting and saying "yous"...[8|]

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

????

Hmm I always thought the National Guard was the state's supplement to the regular military.

So you guys have a supplement to a supplement?

Up here we call them army cadets normally

[robpost3]

I am not exactly sure but it could be a CDC (civil defense corp) offshoot kinda thing, I know here in Westfield MA we have a Citizens Police force which does train you well in small arms, hand to hand, restraining, offensive driving(yep thats right offensive driving) etc. its 4 full weekends for 3 months, I have been on the waiting list for about 6 months and they do a very extensive background check because you do indeed become a "arm" of the law or at least a thumb. I also remeber vaugly from school that a citizen can execute a binding "citizens arrest". Total sidenote: there is a chain of stores called Ocean State Job Lot here, who three years ago had a sale on fortified C-Rations--chipped beef on toast: Sh*t on a shingle!(they sell everything from tools to mixed nuts to dainties to kids toys-dirt cheap)...so Im set! Gimme my Slim Jim, trustee side arm and point me to da dirty commies!!!

[robpost3]

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many SDF's saw a reduction in support and interest from states. However, with the recent emphasis on homeland security, SDFs are receiving new attention as possible sources of trained emergency management personnel.
-Crap! Where did all the commies (pinko ones 'specially)go?!?-

[Halsey]

Every state has these "wanna be" real soldier militia units.[:D]

I guess it's more fun than playing paintball.[;)]

[Terminus]

And more scary...

[JeanNYGUARD]

Wow. These guys do stuff. In the National guard news, and troops informed that these State Defense Force work side by side the National Guard helping out ... doing medical stuff, homeland defense kinda things. And go through a boot camp while at it.

[rhondabrwn]

Having looked over these two referenced sites, it seems clear that this isn't the same thing as the "militia" movement. These people are sanctioned by their state governments, under their direct authority, and specifically "unarmed" as I read it. Major tasking is for emergency relief, search and rescue, and so forth. Not grabbing guns and fighting.

I don't see a problem with this.

[Sarge]

Really ?
I read one week training course , one week does not equate to “Boot” by any stretch of the imagination.


Their not soldiers, leave it at that

[Marc von Martial]

IMHO, kind of like the "Territorial Kommando" back in our Cold War days , nothing wrong with that, in fact much appreciated, but if you want to dicusss the details and politics behind it  better take it here :

http://www.madcowssteakhouse.com/

the "official" sandbox for this kind of stuff

[Zap]

Another group worth mentioning "the Guardian Angels"

[Sarge]

ORIGINAL: Zap

Another group worth mentioning "the Guardian Angels"

[8D]

[robpost3]

thank you

[robpost3]

ya know NY in the early 80s was viscious depending om where you lived...I spent a good time in Hells Kitchen and I will just say in the early 80s it was aptly named...the Iris dock workers the drugs the poor young females who sold their souls to get ahead......