text: Appendix B
  National Guard Legal Structure and Organization
  This appendix describes legal support to the operational Army within the Army
  National Guard.
  OVERVIEW
  B-1. Legal support in the ARNG is primarily embedded in ARNG divisions and brigades, and in the state
  joint forces headquarters. Each state commands and controls its ARNG units. When these units are ordered
  to active duty or called into federal service and while in the United States, they fall under the command and
  control of the relevant United States Army component command. The command’s SJA and subordinate
  command SJAs exercise technical supervision of these federalized National Guard judge advocates and
  paralegals. When ARNG units are assigned, attached, or under the operational control of other commands,
  the SJA of the gaining command exercises technical supervision over the assigned JAG Corps personnel.
  B-2. The National Guard Bureau, while not in the chain of command, serves as the channel of
  communication between the state National Guards and federal entities, and it formulates and administers
  programs to ensure the development and maintenance of ARNG units. With the exception of the selection
  and assignment of regional and senior defense counsel, each state selects, appoints, and assigns its officers,
  NCOs, and enlisted personnel. Regional and senior defense counsel are selected through a nomination
  process originating in the state, then sent through the Chief, ARNG TDS to theChief, TDS. Notwithstanding
  the state’s broad appointment authority, TJAG authorizes appointments to the JAG Corps, and TJAG ensures
  that judge advocates in the ARNG are subject to the same training, educational standards, and supervision as
  other members of the JAG Corps.
  B-3. Each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands has an
  adjutant general (commanding general in the District of Columbia) who is appointed (or elected in the State
  of Vermont) by competent authority, and who serves as the commander of its joint forces’headquarters, and
  who oversees the state’s Army and Air National Guard units. The adjutant general of each state selects a
  senior judge advocate of either the Air National Guard or ARNG to serve as the state judge advocate. ARNG
  units are structured like regular Army units. The major ARNG units are divisions, BCT, and supporting
  functional and multifunctionalbrigades. The mission of the OSJA in ARNG units is the same as that of an
  OSJA in its regular Army counterpart. ARNG BCTs are the principal reserve component ground combat
  maneuver forces of the Army. The brigade legal section of a BCTis modeled on—and has the mission of—
  the brigade legal section of a BCTin the regular Army.
  B-4. Members of the JAG Corps in the National Guard hold dual membership. They are members of the
  reserve component of the Army through the National GuardBureauand membersof the federally recognized
  militia of their state, the ARNG. ARNG judge advocates support the state mission and the state’s federal
  mission. The state mission is to provide trained and disciplined forces for domestic emergencies, or as
  otherwise requiredby the governor. The state’s federal mission is to maintain properly trained, equipped, and
  disciplined units available for prompt mobilization.
  ARMY NATIONAL GUARD TRIAL DEFENSE SERVICE
  B-5. The ANRGTDS consists of the Office of the Chief, which is Title 10,United States Code,personnel
  at the National Guard Bureau; the Full-Time Support (FTS) Program, which consists of Title 10, United
  States Code,ARNGU.S.personnel on orders throughout the United States; and Title 32,United States Code,
  personnel located throughout theUnited States, including the territories and District of Columbia.