ARIZONA STATE MILITIA!!

[GySgt Bob Pinkstaff USMC Retired]

Brewer signs bill authorizing volunteer state militia

By Evan Wyloge -   [e-mail]

 Published: April 28, 2011 at 5:09 pm

Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill creating a state militia that she coulddeploy at any time, and for any reason.

The bill, SB1495, creates a volunteer state militia, separate and apart from the National Guard.

Rep. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, who sponsored a near identical House
bill, said this type of legislation couldn’t have come at a better
time.

Harper, who has previously said the governor would not be required to
establish a state militia and who called the new state guard a “safety net” for the governor, said he thinks Gov. Brewer should call a militia to action right away.

Harper said he consulted several times with Maj. Gen. Hugo Salazar, the
Arizona National Guard’s adjutant general, about how he would be able to utilize a volunteer militia if it were to be established and deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border. He called those conversations encouraging.

The new state militia does not have a command structure defined, and
Harper said the governor could put anyone in charge of the group.“That’s not spelled out in the legislation,” Harper said.

Aside from potentially being deployed to the border, Harper said the new
state guard could be used in the case of nuclear, biological or chemical
attacks, or if there were a radiological leak at a nuclear power plant.

“Decontamination is vital in that scenario,” Harper said. “And the volunteer force could augment first responders in that case.”

[Art in Idaho]

This is Great News!  Hopefully the first of all 50 states!

[M]

Finally, a Governor who acts according to the powers granted her by the Constitution and telling the Feds to go away we don't want you in this. I just hope they get the proper training and discipline. Hey Gunny, why don't you volunteer to train and lead them? They could use a seasoned DI to put them through their paces and teach them how to work and fight as a unit. Maybe you could even teach them how to correctly do LRRPs and report back with the intel so larger units could interdict the drug and illegal runners.

[Catherine Linton]

This is wonderful news considering the mayhem on our southern border, spilling onto American soil. All sorts of ominous items have been found on US roads near the border, including an IED. What a shame our country has little to no deterrence on on these borders..and for so many years. But this is great! It probably made alot of patriots very happy in that region.