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jrichardn2 wrote:As I understand it, the governor of each of the United States is the commander in chief of his or her state's militia. (Connecticut's Articles of Constitution colourfully retain the colonial title of Captain-General.)
Has a uniform or insigne of rank ever been prescribed for a state commander-in-chief? A cursory search of the Web didn't reveal anything. (The professional head of the state militia seems always to be the Adjutant-General, who also seems always to be a military man or woman of what the U.S. calls flag rank, and so therefore has a recognizable uniform and insigne of rank.)
Asking more out of random curiosity than anything else.
Richard in Toronto
ijnfleetadmiral wrote:To my knowledge, they don't. However, if the state in question has a State Defense Force (an example being the Mississippi State Guard), then the Governor is that Force's Commander-in-Chief. So I would guess that the chain-of-command would be as follows:
Governor of the State - Commander-in-Chief (4 stars)
Lieutenant Governor - Deputy C-in-C (3 stars)
Adjutant General - 2 stars
State Guard Commander - 1 star
marcpasquin wrote:are state guards adjudant generals always considered equivalent to 2 stars general no matter the size of the population ?
dcfowler wrote:For non-Americans, a clarification that the National Guard and State Guard/State Defense Forces are not the same thing. The National Guard is an integral reserve component of the armed forces, and can be federalized by the president. State Guards are not, and cannot be federalized.
Dave
dcfowler wrote:Which doesn't always make a lot of sense, when you have California and Texas on one end of the spectrum, and Guam and the Virgin Islands on the other, with all commanded by major generals.
dcfowler wrote:BTW, American Samoa has had an Army Reserve presence for many years. There is an infantry company and a support detachment there.
Dave
dcfowler wrote:The last Puerto Rico AG was a major general; I'm not sure why this one is not.
Having a National Guard presence in American Samoa (as well as the Northern Mariana Islands) is not a sure thing. It's been proposed by their delegates in Congress from time to time, but has never gotten anywhere, partly due to the costs involved, the lack of people available, and partly due to the lack of broad-based support. For instance, the AS delegate is pushing the current proposal, but the governor opposes it.
There have been proposals to attach the AS unit to the Hawai'i NG, and the CNMI unit to the Guam NG, but then the local governors would have no control over activating the troops in case of emergency if that happened.
There is a Pentagon study going on that is looking at this. Having traveled out to that area of the world myself, there is not a ton of infrastructure on those islands, and there would be a lot of upfront costs to getting them going.
BTW, American Samoa has had an Army Reserve presence for many years. There is an infantry company and a support detachment there.
Dave
dcfowler wrote:The last Puerto Rico AG was a major general; I'm not sure why this one is not.
dcfowler wrote:Not sure that's true. It's pretty political appointment, and colonels and retired colonels are routinely promoted to 2 stars to be National Guard AG's.
gghbisa wrote:I found the uniform regulations for the Alabama defense force here:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/98474695/OC ... nse-Force#
ijnfleetadmiral wrote:gghbisa wrote:I found the uniform regulations for the Alabama defense force here:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/98474695/OC ... nse-Force#
The Alabama State Guard is currently inactive...a lot of their members have signed up with us in the interim.
ijnfleetadmiral wrote:Sorry..."us" is the MS State Guard.
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