Alaska Governor: States Should Look at the Militia Model as Bulwark Against Nationalized National Guard

Six state governors gathered at SHOT Show 2022 for the first-ever Governor’s Forum hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Governors Pete Ricketts (Nebraska), Kristi Noem (South Dakota), Asa Hutchinson (Arkansas), Brian Kemp (Georgia), Mark Gordon (Wyoming), and Mike Dunleavy (Alaska) met in Las Vegas to discuss the firearm industry in their states and reaffirm their commitment to the Second Amendment.

As part of his answer to a question about how states are banding together to push back against federal gun control laws, Gov. Dunleavy highlighted Alaska’s State Defense Force. He likened it to colonial-era state militias and offered the model as a way for other states to maintain an alternative to the National Guard, which is under dual state and federal control.

“Alaska for some time, and I think other states are thinking about this as well, has had a state defense force,” he said. “It’s a little bit like the National Guard, but it’s fully underneath the state of Alaska. That’s the bulwark against the possibility of nationalizing the National Guard.”

By NC ScoutPublished On: January 23, 2022Categories: AP Staff, News and Links22 Comments

About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

22 Comments

James Carpenter aka "Felix" January 23, 2022 at 13:50

Details and Devils.
As in the “well regulated” part.
What models were used in colonial times???
Applicable today?
- SFC Steven M Barry USA RET January 23, 2022 at 14:04
  
  The models used in colonial times were His Magesty’s manuals and British Army drill masters.
SFC Steven M Barry USA RET January 23, 2022 at 13:56

Umm… The whole reason for the National Guard Act of 1903, was because over more than 100 years of State’s militias proved them to be not only utterly useless, but more often a debilitating menace to military mobilization in time of war.

I’m sure it’ll be different this time.

S//
- Johnny Paratrooper January 23, 2022 at 14:04
  
  I agree with this.
  Back when it was Black Powder vs. Black Powder things were apples to apples.
  After the advent of Indirect Artillery and the Unitary Metallic Cartridge (UMC), professional soldiers became a requirement.
  
  I am imagining a formation of out of shape over the hill Fudds with personality disorders and then a collapse of order and discipline within the ranks. Followed by desertions and failures to report.
  - SFC Steven M Barry USA RET January 23, 2022 at 14:07
    
    Yup. Zero discipline. And no way to enforce any./ S//
  - 0ughtsix January 23, 2022 at 14:22
    
    So… have any suggestions? Do Nothing? Or, admit the inevitable, resist, BAMN, and die individually, to no good purpose, and alone?
    
    Or sign on to the other team………….
    - Johnny Paratrooper January 23, 2022 at 14:35
      
      Use effective tactics and make the other guy’s occupation a living nightmare?
      
      Do you read ANY of the material we post here? Or any of the history of resistence?
      
      State or Federal the result will be the same.
      
      How about the “Politicians” ban the importation of Chinese goods for a start?
      
      Any formation of troops is just an invitation to a volley of artillery.
      How will they effectively resist anything if the States have full rosters of who and what is resisting anything?
      This entire idea is absolutely nonsensical and, of course, the leaders promoting the idea are selling this idea to a bunch of gun guys in sin city.
      
      A resistance is an organic event. It’s not something that can be stood up or built without the correct phases and formulas.
      
      If the states banned the importation of Chinese Goods and THEN stood up a Militia to enforce this, then I would say “That’s a start!”
      
      This will just turn into a giant three gun tournament and when they need to answer the call their wives and GFs won’t let them leave cause they aren’t disciplined or committed like real soldiers HAVE to be and MUST be.
      
      THIS IS BACKWARDS AND MAKES ZERO SENSE…
      - Rob157 January 23, 2022 at 22:26
        
        We’ll probably wake up one day to find there is no time left for correct phases and formulas.
      - Johnny Paratrooper January 24, 2022 at 16:31
        
        Those phases and formulas are required precursors to any revolution.
        Skipping steps is not allowed.
      - Zorost January 24, 2022 at 01:07
        
        This might sound crazy but if the reason a state militia can’t stand up to the feds is reasons X, Y, and Z perhaps we should solve the problems of X, Y, and Z.
        
        Thinking we can win some kind of guerrilla contest against the feds is utterly laughable. Do some research on it, and you’ll see that there have been any number of studies showing that there are bare minimum requirements. Like a safe zone nearby, foreign support, and a government that is willing to follow the rules of humanitarianism. Canada is more shitlib than the US. No foreign gov will be able to transport supplies due to the US navy and air force. Once our gov thinks there is any chance they might lose they will depopulate any areas that are in revolt, then blame it on neon-nazi white supremacists. See: holodomor, harrowing of the north, Hafez Assad in Hama, 2nd Boer War, etc.
        
        I know veterans of a losing military love to fap at the thought of being like those that beat them, but the vietnamese and afghans had most of the requirements for winning a guerrilla war. We do not.
      - Johnny Paratrooper January 24, 2022 at 16:37
        
        Quote: “Like a safe zone nearby, foreign support, and a government that is willing to follow the rules of humanitarianism.”
        I have safe zones, and friends (My foreign support and multiple sources of income).
        
        Also, they better follow the rules otherwise they will lose their heads, or be replaced, by their own rank and file.
        Hard actions have harder consequences. Especially considering we have most of the badasses on our team.
        
        Guerrilla War is never hopeless. Ask Napoleon’s men in Spain… They were SHREDDED to pieces. 200 years later the same is true. And will always be.
    - SFC Steven M Barry USA RET January 23, 2022 at 16:19
      
      Yes. First, at all times in American martial history, State militias were under the authority of officers appointed by the Governors. So, that’s where you begin; with officers under lawful authority, who exercise their authority under a code of military justice, to which the enlisted militiamen are under orders and obedience, and failing which the militiamen disciplined (or but to punishment) by lawful military justice.
      
      Get over that hump, and you have a beginning.
      
      S//
      - SFC Steven M Barry USA RET January 23, 2022 at 16:21
        
        “…put…”
    - Mas Casa January 23, 2022 at 19:47
      
      I recall reading that the National Guard Act originated because several states’ national guard mobilized for the Spanish-American War had myriad of different weapons and varying quality and amounts of equipment. A logistics and administrative nightmare.
      
      Seems like the good governor(s) would have done better to suggest folks join the actual National Guard. Then they’d actually report to the Governor and Adjutant General when in a Title 32 status. Military training to a standard as well as other benefits too. That said, there’s a limit to state direction and control. Look at the standoff between Oklahoma and the DoD over Sooner Guardsmen getting the vax.
0ughtsix January 23, 2022 at 14:47

See? Isn’t that better? Constructive criticism and offering alternatives, much better than just snarking everyone else’s ideas… which you just can’t resist:

“This will just turn into a giant three gun tournament and when they need to answer the call their wives and GFs won’t let them leave cause they aren’t disciplined or committed like real soldiers HAVE to be and MUST be.”

What makes you think that wives, girlfriends, mothers, neighbors won’t trouble all the wannabes who train with guys like Scout?

And what is it with you? I thought I settled all these aspersions cast on my reading skilz just a day or so ago… I was reading here before you showed up. Likewise at WRSA, back when it was on blogspot parchment, and way before you appeared there as well.
- Johnny Paratrooper January 23, 2022 at 14:58
  
  “What makes you think that wives, girlfriends, mothers, neighbors won’t trouble all the wannabes who train with guys like Scout?”
  Leaving to fight a war is far different than some training and drinking.
  Not even comparable.
  
  Let’s try to keep the conversation Apples to Apples and I will humor you.
Truth in Tension January 23, 2022 at 17:45

I am imagining a fictional story of a well disciplined, and well funded, military trained national police force, that is unleashed on America, with instructions to confiscate all weapons, and then forcibly vaccinate everyone. The imaginary, well funded, national police force in the story is commanded by and directed by bought and paid for political pull peddlers and party members residing in DC and New York (UN). And when the imaginary confiscation of weapons begins the state guards and organized militias in the free states resist the federalized national police force. In the story when this happens, all those ex military experts who made fun of the state guards, and organized militias, will realize how foolish they were. As the state guards, organized state militias, along with resistance cells and groups begin to bleed the federal police force officers and the woke military members who have joined in the confiscations and vaccinations, then the ex military experts will recall, that the US military has not been on the winning side of a war since WWII with the exception of two small countries in Central America. Considering that the state guards, state militias and resistance groups are not as well funded, or as well organized as the federal militarized police force and the woke, transgender military, they prove in the story to be effective at slowing down, and even stopping the forces of tyranny in their areas of operations (their home turf). In the story, the national police force and the woke, transgender military confronts the reality that they were not able to defeat a bunch of goat herders in Afghanistan, and they will not defeat the state guards and militias because of the overwhelming support by the people in the free states. This is just an imaginary fictional story, as everyone knows that ex military people are experts on tactics and strategy. I wonder, did Charlie in Vietnam and the goat herders in Afghanistan study tactics and strategy at the national war college? Oh well, this is just an imaginary fictional story.
Who is John Galt? TEXIT!
- Nunya January 23, 2022 at 18:03
  
  Don’t disagree broadly, but I think what too few appreciate is while there were qualms about “total war” tactics in Korea, Vietnam, GWOT, etc. I don’t see there being any qualms about such tactics against the evil “extremists” of the patriot persuasion if/when things go kinetic. It’s not like there would be a media outlet that would criticize it.
- SFC Steven M Barry USA RET January 23, 2022 at 18:45
  
  “I wonder, did Charlie in Vietnam and the goat herders in Afghanistan study tactics and strategy at the national war college? ”
  
  Yeah. As a matter of fact, they did. The PAVN had professional instruction in Operational Art (and other such neat things) from Soviet military schools and advisors. And the “goat herders” were tightly integrated with Pakistani military intelligence.
  
  The “militia” has chest thumping and musket rattling.
  
  S//
Paul January 23, 2022 at 19:37

I bet all those slobbering 2A gear junkies at SHOT were jizzing all over themselves. Eating up the chicken crap those politicians were feeding them like a 7-11 chicken salad sammich.
A Texan January 23, 2022 at 21:02

I found this exact text from two other sources but the primary seems to be gunsamerica, as it is a longer article. They all say this was “part” of an answer but none have the full text or video of even just this one answer, nor the text of the question.

Meanwhile, did anyone look into this group before declaring them to be nothing but a gaggle of undisciplined chuckleheads? It took 5 fucking minutes to learn:

The Alaska State Defense Force is BY LAW 75% prior service and wear Army uniforms to AR 670-1 standards.

Their missions are:

Communications Emergency Management
Military Police Domain Awareness
Engineering Medical Support
Logistical Support Shelter Management
JRSOI* Chaplaincy

Several of these missions mirror what an Underground is used for.

*JRSOI is Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration. This is usually providing lodging, rations, and theater specific training to newly arriving units.
Smarg January 25, 2022 at 19:54

Actually, it would be quite easy.

Truckers block DC Corridor Beltway entrances and exits, disrupt the already fragile power grids, and the members and families of the Pentagon/DC elites panic without access to food and water. Then locate those families.

Next.