Previous Message

State active duty means paid for by the state and take orders from
the governor. Title 32 comes from the U.S. code and means federal government pays but governor still directs. It’s supposed to be used for training to ensure the guard is ready for federal missions but it’s used all the time for other things. Title 10 is the status named after federal code when president calls into federal duty. Directed by president and paid for by the federal government. See the case below where federal government is allowed to supersede state governor for federal activation. States are also allowed to have their own state defense forces, their own “guard” that have no federal connection. Many states have them. Texas uses them all the time for disaster relief and were fairly prominent during WW2.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/496/334/

I won’t go into the specific authority for these particular guard call ups since I now work for them, but safe to say it’s about 98% performative art. It’s all for show.