TN State Guard?

[A.J. Holst]

Stumbled across this org while surfing today.

Other than supports the Guard, would this be considered our state militia?

[Mike.357]

I don't believe they have guns

[Guest db99wj]

Seems like we have had a topic on this before. IIRC, no guns, like Mike said, unsupported for the most part, unorganized for the most part, some more organized than others. My 6 years in active TN Army National Guard, I never heard of them, let alone was supported by them, but that was in the 90's. THings might have changed, and they might be very organized.

[Mike.357]

I think they help with cleanup from natural or other disasters. Sometimes they have a recruiting booth at gun shows.

[MikePapa1]

I am an officer in the Tennessee State Guard and have actively served since 1999. I know several others here are members as well. The mission of the TNSG is to support the Tennessee National Guard and have, since Katrina, been more often called upon to perform that mission. For example, two weeks ago I participated in the legal processing of soon to be deployed troops at the request of the TANG. We have participated in the last several state wide and regional exercises designed at assisting in times of natural disaster, including Vigilant Guard and NLE 2011 focused on a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault.

The TNSG has a vast array of professionals, legal, medical, engineering and communication which will be vital to assist the National Guard in the time of disaster. We cannot be deployed beyond the borders of Tennessee and are not armed. I was until July the Provost Marshal and my radio call sign was MikePapa1. Since July I have been the EPLO or Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer and serve as the link with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. Most of our officers and senior enlisted are certified in MEMS/NIMS and in order to be promoted must meet the same standard of their National Guard counterparts.

We are the state's organized militia.

Edited November 17, 2011 by MikePapa1