CompuServe Messages

Garry, Read the key wording in the original declaration: …who shall severally and respectively be ENROLLED by the Captain.. (and only after being enrolled are they required to obtain proper arms) And yes…the National Guard is a "new" organization in the sense that nothing called the National Guard existed earlier. Just as prior to the end of WWII, there was no organization called the Air Force…but there were military folks flying airplanes certainly long before the Air Force came into being. Don