A national guard member can be called up, broadly speaking, in one of three ways. One is what's called title ten, which is federally funded and under the pentagons control. The other two are 'state active duty', where troops are activated as temporary state employees. In the eyes of the corts, they are not soldiers when they're activated on state active duty.
And in Texas, they’re trying to unionize.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.
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