Citizens have a right to guns to protect their homes, but, not guns that out gun police or the USA military. That capacity was never understood to be a constitutional right.
Remember the how the National Guard and Reserves were called up to serve in Iraq? The Commander and Chief has a right to do that, but, never were they ever designed or suppose to be used in such capacity.
It was the origins of the National Guard that was the beginning of the Continental Forces that would fight in the war for independence with the help of allies to the colonists. Those allies, by the way, also included Native American Indians.
The reserve branches formed a military strategic reserve during the Cold War, to be called into service in case of war.Time magazine writer Mark Thompson has suggested that with the Global War on Terrorism, the reserves deployed as a single force with the active branches and America no longer has a strategic reserve.
Remember the how the National Guard and Reserves were called up to serve in Iraq? The Commander and Chief has a right to do that, but, never were they ever designed or suppose to be used in such capacity.
About the National Guard (click here)
The National Guard, the oldest component of the Armed Forces of the United States and one of the nation's longest-enduring institutions, celebrated its 370th birthday on December 13, 2006. The National Guard traces its history back to the earliest English colonies in North America. Responsible for their own defense, the colonists drew on English military tradition and organized their able-bodied male citizens into militias....It was the origins of the National Guard that was the beginning of the Continental Forces that would fight in the war for independence with the help of allies to the colonists. Those allies, by the way, also included Native American Indians.
The reserve branches formed a military strategic reserve during the Cold War, to be called into service in case of war.Time magazine writer Mark Thompson has suggested that with the Global War on Terrorism, the reserves deployed as a single force with the active branches and America no longer has a strategic reserve.
Army reserve
In 1908 (23 April?) Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. After the First World War, under the National Defense Act on 4 June 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard, and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army Reserve. This organization would last into the 1950s, providing a peacetime pool of trained Army Reserve officers and enlisted men for use in war. The ORC included the Officers’ Reserve Corps, Enlisted Reserve Corps and Reserve Officers Training Corps. The Organized Reserves were redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps. Recognizing the importance of the Organized Reserve to the World War II effort, Congress authorized retirement and drill pay for the first time in 1948.
