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“I just heard about it two minutes ago…I really don’t know what the details are,” said Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo in response to a question about DeSantis' move to send state and national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas. “My initial reaction is that he’s so desperate to get national attention," she said. "The men and women didn’t sign up to be used as political stunts, and that’s what this is.” The Florida State Guard was re-established by the legislature in 2022. A staff analysis of last year’s expansion bill states it can only operate, "with the...

Governor Ron DeSantis proposed reinstating Florida's State Guard — and the entire leftist establishment went mad. So mad, indeed, that Sarah Silverman, of all people, issued a "calm down" warning to MSNBC's professional hysteric, Joy Reid.State guard forces are nothing new and nothing exciting. Indeed, even Wikipedia has an honest and temperate description of them. It explains that they are military units that operate under the aegis of the given state's governor. Unlike a state's national guard forces, they cannot be federalized. (You may recall how the Democrats called National Guard forces to D.C. in January so there'd be someone...

All the right moves….. We can expect the national media to go bananas as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken a bold step in advancement of federalism with authorization and funding for the formation of a state militia known as the Florida State Guard During an event today in Pensacola Florida, the governor announced the creation of three new state-centric armories to support the new state guard units. One in the former airbase at Homestead, one in Gainesville and one in Malabar. As noted in the release, “The establishment of the Florida State Guard will further support those emergency response...

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)VAN ZANDT COUNTY, TX (KLTV) - Van Zandt County has been inundated with the Texas State Guard conducting rescue operations, but it was only a drill. Officials say they are simulating search and rescue missions to prepare for hurricane season. They use Boy Scouts to play victims of a natural disaster. Somewhere in the woods of Van Zandt County, Boy Scouts playing tornado victims await aid. Back in Canton, the Texas State Guard has taken over the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Department briefing room. Lt. Colonel Wendell Sadler says all that military is under the county emergency operations coordinator's control...

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state guard to monitor a U.S. military training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm 15" amid some residents' suspicions of the U.S. government's plan. Abbott's request Tuesday comes after some residents in Bastrop County questioned a U.S. Army commander during a town meeting about whether the government was planning to confiscate guns or implement martial law.

Rick Perry admitted at the RGA today that he was very troubled by Obama’s tone today addressing the National Governors Association: I don’t mind telling you I was a bit troubled today by the tone of the president. …For the president of the United States to look Democrat and Republican governors in the eye and to say ‘I do not trust you to make decisions in your state about issues of education, about transportation infrastructure…’ – that is really troubling. Perry went on to say that Obama was going to hollow out the National Guard and warned the state governors...

The Arizona governor could deploy an armed, volunteer militia to respond to natural disasters and patrol the Arizona-Mexico border for illegal immigrants and drug-traffickers under a legislative proposal (SB1495, creates a volunteer state militia) to fund a state guard. The state would pay $1.9 million to activate the Arizona State Guard, created last year through an executive order signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona would join 23 other states and territories with active guards, but the state would stand alone (as) its militia focused on border enforcement…

May 15, 2007, 1:30 a.m. On Your GuardServe your state and country -- and annoy the New York Times! By Dave Konig It has taken the New York Times 70 years to discover the New York Guard, the state’s official all-volunteer back up for the National Guard. True to form, the New York Times didn’t find much to like about citizens volunteering to help the Army in time of war. They wrote a sneering piece — not just a “smear” piece, but a “sneer” piece. As an enlisted man in the New York Guard, I’d like to respond to...

Medical Rangers prepared to helphttp://www.temple-telegram.com/story/local/2006/7/17/33092 by Larry Causey Published July 17, 2006 Temple will be represented when the Texas Medical Rangers provide medical aid for about 6,000 people in the Rio Grande Valley during Operation Lone Star, July 22-Aug. 5. Gov. Rick Perry formed the Texas Medical Rangers as part of the Texas State Guard in March 2003, to reinforce emergency workers at large disasters. In 2005, the Rangers supported relief efforts for evacuees of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They also took part in last year’s Operation Lone Star. About a dozen volunteers from the Temple Texas Medical Rangers will...

(snip) Maj. Gen. Glenn K. Rieth, the Guard's adjutant general, ordered the naval militia to stand down in 2002 while state officials, concerned about training, liability and funding issues, reviewed its status. Jordan and fellow militia members John Jedrejczyk and Mark Tegeder, along with former member Louis Ianniello, counterattacked this month. They fired a legal salvo at state officials, accusing them in a civil rights complaint of military branch discrimination. "We're doing this for the other members," said Jordan, 47, of Jackson, a certified firearms instructor. "We hope to get this moving again in the right direction. We've been totally...

CAMP MABRY, Texas (Sept. 20, 2005) -- Texas Army National Guard personnel will temporarily move equipment from Houston to Austin today in anticipation of Hurricane Rita as other personnel are poised to respond to hurricane Rita. Today at 3 p.m. the sky over Austin will momentarily be the scene of 13 AH-64 Apache helicopters as they fly in from Houston and make Austin Army Aviation Support Facility at Bergstrom International Airport their temporary home.Lt. Col. James T. Kenyon, Texas Army Aviation and Safety director, said they made the decision to move the assets because of the potential hurricane threat to...