The Governor of each state has the sole ability to mobilize that state's National Guard forces for emergencies.
If your National Guard Unit is ordered on actiuve duty and sent to Iraq, YES.
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See above answer.
If that job title is needed, yes.
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Depends on the context. If you're asking if you could serve in a Ranger unit in the National Guard, the answer is no - they don't exist.If you're asking if you can be sent to Ranger School from a National Guard unit, it's highly unlikely. There might be a possibility of you be able to be sent from a Special Forces unit of the National Guard, but it's doubtful you'd be sent from a line company.If you're looking to transfer to the Regular Army from the National Guard, then you'd have the same opportunities as any other infantryman in the Regular Army would, provided you pull your own weight.
If a person joins the National Guard today (August 2010), I think there is an excellent possibility of being sent to combat duty in Afghanistan, or Iraq.
There are actually two National Guards, but when people say the National Guard they are probably (but not necessarily) talking about the Army National Guard. The other National Guard is the Air National Guard which is to the Air Force what the Army National Guard is to the Army.
No. There is only an Army National Guard and an Air National Guard.
There is the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
Yes, my girlfriend was arrested and taken to jail for awol from the colorado national guard...
Very few National Guard units were sent to Vietnam, even though the draft was in effect. This led to the creation of the Total Force Policy, which effectively established the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard as a single, unitary force, and is the reason the deployment of National Guard units has been so widespread in Iraq (both in 1991 and in the current operation) and in Afghanistan.