Well guard units funding comes from the states, depending on the unit sometimes they got great brand new stuff or put up with old cast off junk. If this was the so-called 'Champagne" outfit of the TxANG they probaly got pretty good stuff
Still stuck in my active duty mindset [grin].
Very little of it. All their assigned equipment belongs not to the state, but the US Army or US Air Force. The salaries for the "pure reservists", come totatly from the Federales, I'm not sure about the funding for the so called "technitions", the full time cadre who, even though they wear USAF or US Army uniforms, are technically civiilians. In many states, OK for example, the "technitions" even belong to a government employees union, all but the officers. Perhaps even some of those, my squadron only had one full time officer, he was a mustang Captain, but was the XO or vice CO (It's been 26 years) the CO being a pure reservist.