The Unique Nature of the Guardsmen

Every guardsman has to go through active duty basic training, whether it's army basic training or air force basic training. The unique nature of the guard is that a lot of times what we get asked to do doesn't necessarily line up with our military job. We have field artillery soldiers who are not shooting their rockets in support of our state mission. And then we can bring e resources and a just institutional knowledge about how to co ordinate a response very quickly and effectively.