tHe When, Why, What, How,
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he UNITED STATES NATIONAL GUARD

THE FIRST COMMONWEALTH MILITIA
WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1636. THE
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD IS THE
OLDEST MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT
IN THE UNITED STATES, OLDER THAN
THE NATION ITSELF.

THE GUARD TODAY HAS A DUAL
FEDERAL-STATE MISSION. THE
READIEST OF OUR COUNTRY’S
READY RESERVE FORCES, IT IS
IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR
ACTIVE DUTY IN THE EVENT OF A
NATIONAL EMERGENCY. UNITS
MAY BE CALLED TO STATE DUTY
BY THE GOVERNOR, IN THE EVENT
OF A LOCAL DISTURBANCE OR
DISASTER.

p— THE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF UNITS TO BE FOUND IN THE ARMY AND AIR.
NATIONAL GUARD INCLUDE: AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY, FIELD ARTILLERY, INFANTRY,
ARMORED INFANTRY, ARMORED CAVALRY, ENGINEER, AVIATION, ORDNANCE,
TRANSPORTATION, QUARTERMASTER, FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR, TACTICAL
RECONNAISANCE, TACTICAL FIGHTER, AEROMEDICAL AND HEAVY TRANSPORT,

TROOP CARRIER, TACTICAL. CONTROL, AND COMMUNICATIONS UNITS.

PREPARED BY JOHNSTONE CUSHING, 137 £.5714ST, N.¥.22, N.Y. 14


the TRADITION OF THE CIVILIAN
SOLDIER TRACES ITS WAY THROUGH
AMERICAN HISTORY LIKE...

SSBHE COLONIAL MILITIA
ANSWERED GEORGE
WASHINGTON'S CALL FOR,
TROOPS TO FIGHT THE
BRITISH. THE MINUTEMEN
FOUGHT TO WIN THE
INDEPENDENCE ToDay's
NATIONAL GUARD IS
PLEDGED TO DEFEND.

FBHE MODERN DAY NATIONAL GUARD
1S REALLY A CONTINUATION OF THE
OLD COLONIAL MILITIA. IT WAS

NEW YORK'S 77H REGIMENT THAT FIRST
ACQUIRED THE NAME “NATIONAL GUARD":
A UNIT OF THIS OUTFIT SERVED AS A
GUARD OF HONOR. “TO GENERAL
LAFAYETTE. AT THE START OF HIS
TRIUMPHANT TOUR OF AMERICA IN
1824. A FEW DAYS LATER THIS UNIT
WAS RENAMED “THE BATTALION OF
NATIONAL GUARDS" IN TRIBUTE TO THE
COMMANDANT OF FRANCES GARDE
NATIONALE.

a THE EARLY PART OF THE I9TH CENTURY
SCARCELY A YEAR WENT BY THAT SOME
PORTION OF THE MILITIA WAS NOT CALLED
INTO ACTIVE SERVICE.

IN THE WAR OF 18/2, AT NEW ORLEANS...
IN THE SEM/NOLE WAR, IN FLORIDA...

IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO, AT VERA CRUZ,
CONTRERAS, THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA...

THE GUARD WAS ALWAYS THERE!



Qovember 6,1951, AN F-84- FLIGHT SCORED A"GOOD HIT” ON fi
ANORTH KOREAN RAILROAD. I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS THERE

JOHN PALADINO, &
WAS FLIGHT LEADER

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...WE WERE HEADING HOME,| | THE AIR'S PRETTY THIN UPAT 32,000. 1
DOING BETTER THAN 500 MPH AT 32,000 FEET... SHOULD KNOW, BECAUSE MY OXYGEN

iN APPARATUS FAILED ON THE WAY HOME.

SUDDENLY MY INSTRUMENT PANEL WENT HAZY.

THAT'S THE LAST THING I REMEMBER. BUT | W” V1,
THEY TELL ME MY PLANE BEGAN PITCHING] Fee iy
AND DIVING LIKE A BUCKING BRONCO. see

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SOMETHINGS
WRONG... THROTTLE
BACK, FOX iBADER!
DO YOU HEAR MEF .



CTOBER 8, 1918, THE 30TH
DIVISION SLUGGED ITS WAY
FORWARD DURING THE CAMPAIGN
TO CRACK THE HINDENBURG
LINE. THE MEN OF COMPANY G

Py OF THE fISTH INFANTRY
fe

le} THROUGH THE EARLY
MORNING MIST. I
yi KNEW BECAUSE I

BUT THE GERMAN GUNNERS WERE ALSO ABOVE THE DIN I HEARD OUR
THERE. AND THEY HAD OUR RANGE. _| C.0. CALLING HOARSELY...

YOU GOT ) /LL LIVE, DOZIER. YOU'RE

IT BAD, “> THE ONLY OFFICER LEFT
CAPTAIN? J NOW..:TAKE OVER!

I HAD JOINED THE OUTFIT JUST A FEW
DAYS AGO, AND NOW L WAS IN COMMAND.

WHAT WAS LEFT OF COMPANY G WAS ON THE.
MOVE AGAIN. BUT SUDDENLY.
CORPSMAN! -
THE LIEUTENANT
J A BANDAGE ON.
BEEN EE Sy AND STOP THE

A NATIONAL.
GUARDSMAN...
YOU SAW ACTION
WITH THE GUARD
ON THE

4 ey
BUT THE BUTTERFLIES IN MY STOMACH
KEPT FLUTTERING.



dy 1822 CAPTAIN ABRAHAM
LINCOLN FOUGHT WITH ILLINOIS
MILITIA TROOPS IN THE BLACK
HAWK WAR.

FIVE OTHER GUARDSMEN
WHO BECAME PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES WERE:
GEORGE WASHINGTON
ANDREW JACKSON
CHESTER ARTHUR.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
HARR’ Ss. TRUMAN

‘TIONAL GUARDSMEN FOUGHT

BOTH SIDES IN THE WAR BETWEEN
THE STATES. IN THE RANKS OF BOTH ¥
THE BLUE AND GRAY...THE GUARD.
WAS THERE.

(UN worLb WAR 1...0F THE
EIGHT U.S. DIVISIONS RATED
“TOUGHEST” By THE GERMAN
HIGH COMMAND, SIX WERE
NATIONAL GUARD DIVISIONS.


Bac: ONLY IN WAR, ON DISTANT BATTLEFIELDS, BUT ALSO IN PEACE...
WHENEVER DISASTER HAS STRUCK ON OUR OWN SOIL...THE GUARD HAS
ALWAYS BEEN THERE. THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS RENDERED OUR NATION..

THREE CENTURIES OF SERVICE

@ur votunteeR CTiZenee
SOLDIERS HAVE ALWAYS
SPEARHEADED RELIEF

TEAMS IN LOCAL DISASTERS.
THERE WERE GUAR!

Ox connecticut,
MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE
ISLAND, AND PENNSYLVANIA
AFTER THE AWESOME

HURRICANE HAD STRUCK.

++. AT JOHNSTOWN WHEN
THE CITY WAS 'BURIED
UNDER TONS OF WATER.

BN TEXAS CITY, FIGHTING
THE INFERNO OF FLAMES
THAT FOLLOWED THE.
EXPLOSIONS.

IN WORLD WAR IL, 82,000 NATIONAL GUARD
ENLISTED MEN WERE COMMISSIONED AS LIEUTENANTS
To HELP TRAIN AND COMMAND THE HASTILY RECRUITED
WARTIME ARMY. MORE THAN 20 GUARDSMEN WON THE
MEDAL OF HONOR.

THE 18 NATIONAL GUARD INFANTRY DIVISIONS THAT
TOOK TO THE FIELD AT THE START OF THE WAR,
DOUBLED THE STRENGTH OF THE ARMY AT ONCE.

§ DURING THE KOREAN WAR, 183,000 GUARDSMEN ¢ SAW
ACTIVE SERVICE, BOTH ON THE GROUND AND IN THE AIR...

9



Q@r concorp
I FIRED THE
FATEFUL SHOT..

|| THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL GUARD
FROM MUSKETS TO MISSILES



Fue MINUTEMEN AT CONCORD FOUGHT WITH MUSKETS...
AND IN THOSE DAYS MUSKETS WERE ENOLIGH. TODAY,
HOWEVER, MISSILES ARE AMONG THE WEAPONS OF

TODAY... MANY OF OUR
NIKE-AJAX MISSILE
SITES ARE MANNED AND
OPERATED BY UNITS OF
THE NATIONAL GUARD.
THEY STAND GUARD 24
HOURS A DAY AGAINST A
SNEAK ATTACK BY ENEMY
AIRCRAFT. 2

THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
HAS BEEN REORGANIZED
ALONG MODERN “PENTOMIC"
LINES, WITH 64,000 WHEELED
AND 3,200 TRACKED VEHICLES.
GROUND COMBAT FORCES OF
THE GUARD HAVE THE MOBILITY
NEEDED IN NUCLEAR WARFARE.

THE “HONEST JOHN” ARTILLERY ROCKET ADDS
ATOMIC FIREPOWER AND LONG-RANGE PUNCH! }



I DON'T REMEMBER HEARING ANYTHING.
—-

WING UNDER FOX
LEADER'S WING. /’LL-

GET UNDER THE OTHER...
WELL TRY TO KEEP
HIM LEVEL UNTIL

BUT THAT'S WHEN ALL MY TRAINING PAID
OFF. WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING, I WENT

THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF DECREASING

MY POWER...AND THEN... WAS OUT COLD!

IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE MANEUVER
UNPRECEDENTED IN AVIATION HISTORY...

Zh

THEY LITERALLY CARRIED ME DOWN TO WHERE THE AIR WAS LESS
THIN. I CAME TO AT 13,500 FEET, THANKS TO FOX TWO AND FOX
THREE, CAPTAIN JOHN MILLER AND LIELITENANT WOOD MCARTHUR...

4 Fe =

.-. AND THE RESULTS OF THE TRAINING
BACK AT THE I547H FIGHTER SQUADRON OF THE
ARKANSAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD.

Tt


PVT. CALLIE A. SMITH WENT
WITH ME ON ATWO-MAN
FLANKING MOVEMENT.

[JERRY MACHINE GUN
| NEST UP AHEAD. WERE
» PINNED
HAVE TO KEEP \_ DOWN.
MOVING...USE
INFANTRY TACTICS...
AY NATIONAL
GUARD TRAINING.-.

I DIDN'T REMEMBER MUCH AFTER THAT. JUST SQUEEZING
THROUGH SOME JERRY BARBED WIRE..-THEN A FRACAS AT
A HEAVILY MANNED JERRY DUGOUT...
< am zt

q

SAVE YOUR BREATH.
ee WE MADE IT ALL
NT! YOu p
HEAR MES WEREAT )-RIGHT...BUT WHAT'S
| OUR OBvEGTiVE! ./ THE USE TELLING |

BUT THE LIEUTENANT WAS STILL ALIVE.
EVACUATED TO A BASE HOSPITAL, HE
SLOWLY RECOVERED HIS HEALTH. AND ON
JAN.21,1919, GENERAL PERSHING AWARDED -
OUR NATION'S HIGHEST DECORATION, THE
OF HONOR, 70 ist LIEUTENANT
JAMES C. DOZIER..-



PREPARE...

THEY'RE FIRING!
FIRE BACK!

FIRE BACK! ¥

2

_ HOW WAS I TO KNOW THAT THIS WOULD BE THE FATEFUL
“SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD’? BUT I WAS THERE...

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TRAINING STANDARDS FOR THE
GUARD ARE EXACTLY THE SAME
AS FOR THE ACTIVE ARMY

AND AIR FORCE! TECHNICAL

@) TRAINING IS GIVEN IN RADAR,
ELECTRONICS, COMMLINICATIONS,
AND CONSTRUCTION. OFFICER
CANDIDATE SCHOOLS FOR ARMY
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN ARE
CONDUCTED By THE ACTIVE ARMY
AND By 47 INDIVIDUAL STATES.

THE GUARD IS MADE UP ENTIRELY OF CITIZEN VOLUNTEERS. MECHANICS,
STUDENTS, STOREKEEPERS, TEACHERS, FARMERS AND LAWYERS, YOUR

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS— ALL GIVE A PART OF THEIR TIME EVERY WEEK TO
TRAIN IN DEFENSE OF THEIR COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY.

YOU CAN SERVE YOUR
COUNTRY IN YOUR

COMMUMTY
AS A MEMBER OF

YOUR
NATONALGUARD



"IT'S A TRADITION THAT GOES
BACK TO THE DAYS OF JAMESTOWN
AND PLYMOUTH. WHEN INDIANS

ATTACKED, EVERY ABLE-BODIED

MAN WAS EXPECTED TO SNATCH

up A MUSKET...

“OUR PART-TIME SOLDIERS NEVER HAD FANCY UNIFORMS...

INOR ENOUGH MUSKETS TO GO AROUND. BUT THEY COULD

OUTSHOOT AND OUTSMART MOST OF YOUR MERCENARIES.
THEY PROVED THIS IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.

oy se

“THE FIRST MILITIA FOR HOME DEFENSE WAS
FORMED AS LONG AGO AS 1636. BACK IN
THOSE DAYS, EVERY MAN HAD To SERVE IN IT...

"LATELY, EVER SINCE THE TROUBLE
STARTED WITH ENGLAND,THE TOWN
MILITIAS HAVE BEEN DRILLING AS
NEVER BEFORE. SOME OF US JOINED!
MINUTEMAN COMPANIES. WE GAVE}
OUR WORD WE'D BE READY To
FIGHT AT A MINUTE'S NOTICE..."

LAD, THE NOTICE.
CAME!

+: AND THIS MORNING }=7=—__ _~- Zz FALL IN, MEN— WE'RE

GOING ACROSS
THE BRIDGE!



RST A NL age
APRIL 19, 1775 WAS A COLD, BRIGHT DAY. IT

WAS BITTERLY WINDY UPON THAT HILL. I
KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS THERE...

THE REDCOATS SHOT EIGHT
FARMERS AT LEXINGTON
THIS MORNING— AND NOW

IEY'RE SETTING FIRE TO
CONCORD TOWN.

WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR?

PATIENCE, LAD— OUR
MILITIA CAPTAINS WILL
DECIDE WHAT To DO.

JO COME TO THANK THE REDCOATS
FOR SPILLING AMERICAN BLOOD
AT LEXINGTON TODAY ?.

?

H

IF (T'S WAR
THEY WANT, LET'S
GIVE IT TO

BUT THE REDCOATS
ARE PROFESSIONAL
SOLDIERS AND THERE
ARE 600 MORE
INSIDE CONCORD.

IN EUROPE,

Pr war ABouT THEM! DID WE LWgzZ
LEAVE OUR PLOWS STANDING IDLE : HEAR THAT LAD? ONLY > \ ARMS ARE

IN AMERICA WILL YOU FIN

MEN LEAVING THEIR PLOWS

TO FIGHT FOR THE
COMMON GOOD.

BORNE. BY
MERCENARIES
=BUT WE BELIEVE.
IN FIGHTING OUR

OWN BATTLES...



Wleavy Transport UNITS oF
THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD CAN
FLY C97 "STRATOCRUISERS"
ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Te AIR GUARD
HAS 76 COMBAT
SQUADRONS EQUIPPED
WITH HIGH /
PERFORMANCE

YET AIRCRAFT.

PRany OF THEM FIRE RADAR-GUIDED AIR-TO-AIR.
MISSILES WITH BUILT-IN ELECTRONIC BRAINS THAT
CAN OUTWIT AND DESTROY ENEMY AIRCRAFT.

=
"SODAY...THE 400,000 tirend eS s20
THE All
eae ona 12,000 Mamie teas
472,000

VOLUNTEER CITIZEN-SOLDIERS, YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS,”
STAND READY TO DEFEND AMERICA.
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I AM THE GUARD

Civilion in Peace, Soldier in War . . f honor, for three centuries | have been
the custodian, !am the Guard, <=»
| was with Washington in the dint forest, f@ught the wily warrior, and watched the dork
night bow to the morning . Wii) es bridge, [Fired the fateful shot heard ‘round the world
. | bled on Bunker Hill . the snows at Valley Forge .. . | pulled a
muffled oar on the barge that . . | stood with Washington on the sun-
drenched heights of Yorktows® rendered ... 1am the Guard . . . | pulled
the trigger that loosed the to . These things | knew—I was
there! . . . | saw both sidediof the War-bet Mee aiies—1 was therel . .. The Hill at San'Juan
felt the a of my charge .te 1 olintains of the Philippines echoed to my
shout... On the Mexican borde: Yard... The dark forest of the Argonne
blazed with my barrage’... tp my cannonade . . . Under the arches
of victory | marched in legion e Guard... | bowed briefly on the grim
Corregidor, then saw the ligh the faces of my comrades . . . Through
the jungle and on the beaches) battered and broke him. . . | raised our
banner to the serene er Normandy's beaches —I was there!
. Lam the Guard jade my stand ...1 flew MIG Alley —I
was there! ... lam the G
Soldier in war, civilian in peace.
I was at Johnstown, where thésragi

d down the valley

child in my arms and saw the-ferror leave her ey «| moved throu
Texas City . . . The stricken knew as | dropped the food that fed the
starving beast onthe frozen’ f “drifts | ploughed to
rescue the marooned... faced forwa 18 40 the tofhado, the typhoon, and the horror of

e things | know =I was there! ..¢.1 am the Guatd.. «| have
Biller, a finer! ligne our youth , J »MbeteVeF a strong arm and
valiant spirit must defend t! ion, in peace or wart wherever a child cries, ora womanWeeps
in time of disaster, there l’stand... | am the Guard +. . For thee conturiessa soldier inwar, a
civilian in peace—of sacutily and honor, Jam the custodian, now ma forever... lamthe Guard.

the hurricane and flood —
brought a more abundant,

Your ACTIVE ARMY TRAINING
MAKES YOU ESPECIALLY VALUABLE
NOW. WHILE HELPING TO TRAIN
YOUNGER MEN, YOU CAN QUALIFY
FOR ADVANCEMENT TO NCO
AND EVEN JUNIOR OFFICER RANK...
AND...YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE. TO THE
DEFENSE OF YOUR COMMUNITY
AND YOUR COUNTRY IN THE
NATIONAL GUARD.

GET ALL THE DETAILS AT
THE ARMORY /N YOUR OWN f
HOME TOWN! (

VETERANS...

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