No. Closest is Guam because it is a territory of the U.S. The Philippines is an independent country.
No, there isn't. The Philippines are a sovereign country with their own military.
Over 1,000,000 soldiers serve collectively in the Active Army, Army Reserve and Army National Guard.
The initials are US ARNG
No. There is an Army National Guard / Air National Guard unit in every US State, and in Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and the District of Columbia.
If you mean the National Guard, it is overseen by the National Guard Bureau, who is under the Dept. of the Army who is under the Dept. Of Defense.
According to 10 USC Chapter 13 § 311 - the National Guard is an organized militia of the US. While individual National Guard units may be federalized and activated subordinate to Army (or Air Force as with Air National Guard) authority, they are a reserve component, and are part of the US Army or Air Force.
There is a website dedicated to americans fallen in Afghanistan called "remember the fallen". Although National Guard falls under the US Army, they may be listed as US Army and not National Guard. Once a guardsman is activated, he/she becomes active duty army until returned back to guard status when deployment is completed. The same goes for the Air National Guard, they become US Air Force personnel.
45 active, 28 national guard
According to 10 USC Chapter 13 § 311 - the National Guard is an organized militia of the US. While individual National Guard units may be federalized and activated subordinate to Army (or Air Force as with Air National Guard) authority, they are a reserve component, and are part of the US Army or Air Force.
Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force. Each state also has a National Guard, but all National Guards are officially part of the Army.
There is no such thing as a national guard group.
Their status as a militia can be an issue of debate. However, as far as the technical aspects go, they are a militia in the sense that they are not a regular military formation, and that they can be called to serve the needs of non-federal entities. The Militia Act of 1903 defined the National Guard as the organisedmilitia, with other militia entities being the unorganisedmilitia.A number of bills have been passed in the years since 1903 which have further separated the National Guard from the Constitutional definition of a militia, such as the National Defence Act of 1916 (which merged the National Guard into the US Army, and established the National Guard as the primary reserve force of the US Army, rather than the Army Reserve), and the Total Force Policy of 1974, which effectively defined the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard as one entity.But, until the Supreme Court rules otherwise (which is highly unlikely), the Militia Act of 1903 stands.