I think the national guard is fascinating but don't know much about it.
I am a member of the national guard!  I hold a full time civilian job and am a part time National Guard member!  I love it!
That is a lot of work! But it sounds like you find it worthwhile. 
Oh I do!  Interestingly, the National Guard is under the control of both the state and the federal government.
Huh. I did not know that. What else can you tell me?
Well, because I am a National Guard member, I am also a member of the United States militia!
Right! National Guard is like a reserve member right?
Exactly!  And the reserve is made up of National Guard members from each of the states as well as the territories!
I didn't know the territories also had National Guard members. Anything else I should know?
The National Guard is a joint activity of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) composed of reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, respectively.
Local militias were formed from the earliest English colonization of the Americas in 1607. The first colony-wide militia was formed by Massachusetts in 1636 by merging small older local units, and several National Guard units can be traced back to this militia. The various colonial militias became state militias
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