[Drammach]

They can keep the people there, but the Pentagon can pull the funding and all the equipment.

Better go back and check your constitution.. see if it's the same as mine..

Article 1 section 8..:
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress..
(Discipline: Training, instruction, conduct, punishment..)

Importantly to this conversation, is the "provide for organizing, arming and disciplining" part..

It is the constitutionally required duty of the congress to provide arms ( guns, ammo, tanks, fighter planes helicopters, artillery, missiles, etc..) to the Militia of each State..
It is not a matter of "authority" to do so.. It is required..

If the U.S. government wants fighter pilots from Connecticut, they had better d**n well "provide" for them and their training, or do without..

Do you want anyone you know going to war as a fighter pilot with no training, no flight hours, in unfamiliar planes that they have no personal experience with?
How many of those "pilots" will come back home?

[dila813]

I am talking head count, of course they aren't going to leave valuable pilots sitting without planes.

They may fly them out to another base for flight ops each weekend.

The general equipping of these forces, yes they provide (clothes, food, drills), but they don't have to provide anything at the whim of the state.

They can choose to provide them no guns if they want, and they could be drilling with pea shooters if so funded.

Otherwise, every state would have subs, stealthes, etc... etc.. We don't have the money to operate that way.

[feedback doctor]

If the U.S. government wants fighter pilots from Connecticut, they had better d**n well "provide" for them and their training, or do without..

I may be wrong but in this re-alignment process, the US Govt IS saying they don't want fighter pilots form Conn.