District of Columbia National Guard

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DC National Guard emblem

The District of Columbia National Guard ( DC National Guard for short ) of the US Federal District of Columbia is part of the National Guard of the United States ( acronymized USNG ) established in 1903 and thus also part of the second instance of the Military Reserve of the United States' Armed Forces .

organization

The members of the National Guard are voluntary service payable militiamen . The national guards of the states have been federally and institutionally closely linked to the regular army and air force since 1903 , so that the federal level can fall back on them under certain circumstances with the consent of Congress . In the case of the District of Columbia National Guard , which is not a state but a federal district , the President of the United States is the sole commander in chief.

The District of Columbia National Guard consists of the two branches of the Army and Air Force , namely the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard . A naval militia does exist on paper, but does not really exist.

Workforce

The District of Columbia National Guard has (as of 2017) a population of 1358, the District of Columbia Air National Guard one of 1248, so together a total of 2606.

District of Columbia Army National Guard units

  • Multi-Agency Augmentation Command
  • 74th Troop Command (United States)
    • 372nd Military Police Battalion ("Red Hand")
    • 547th Transportation Company
    • 104th Maintenance Company
  • 260th Regiment (Regional Training Institute)
  • 257th Army Band "The Band of the Nation's Capital"
  • 1-224th Aviation Security and Support Battalion
    • D Company (Air Ambulance)
    • Detachment 1, A Company
  • 1-126th General Support Aviation Battalion
  • Detachment 1, C Company (Air Ambulance)
  • District of Columbia Medical Command
    • Detachment 4, Operational Support Airlift Command
    • Recruiting and Retention Battalion
    • National Guard Bureau Legal Support Office

Units of the District of Columbia Air National Guard

  • 113th Wing
    • 113th Operations Group
    • 121st Fighter Squadron
    • 201st Airlift Squadron
  • 113th Maintenance Group
    • 113th Support Group
    • 113th Medical Group
    • 121st Weather Group
    • 231st Combat Communications Squadron
DC National Guard units after the 1968 DC riots

history

As early as 1776 there were local militia units in the area that was then part of Maryland . In 1802, the DC Militia was founded under President Thomas Jefferson , with the main task of defending the newly established federal district . Since 1860, the DC Militia has also played an important role in securing the inauguration of the President of the United States . Since the Militia Act (1903) , the militias of the states and the Federal District are federal law and institutionally closely linked to the regular army and air force and performed their service in both the First and Second World War and the Korean War . In 1963, National Guards secured the March on Washington for Work and Freedom . They were also used after the DC riots in 1968 after the assassination of Martin Luther King . Due to the special position of the federal district , the President of the United States is the sole Commander in Chief of the DC National Guard, so that President Donald Trump was able to use it on June 1, 2020 in Washington against demonstrators of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Web links

Commons : District of Columbia National Guard  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DoD Personnel, Workforce Reports & Publications . DoD. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ Status of the US capital: The fight for Washington's vote , Tagesspiegel from June 26, 2020.