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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I'm not sure. I think that to work properly these days citizens would have to volunteer, and show up at a specified place and time with their own rifles to drill under State, not Federal, supervision, and agree to show up if called. That's just my idea of how it might work, and as I said I'm not sure.
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So does anyone know? I'm wondering how it would work and why it wouldn't be different to a general call up under similar conditions to WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
Found this 1915 War College discussion which points to some interesting questions about how it worked pre WWI involvement.
http://archive.org/stream/militiaaso...trich_djvu.txt