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moved from Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/One weekend a month, two weeks a year:
Should be merged with Army National Guard. -- Paul Richter 03:30, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I removed the reference to the Home Gaurd of England during the Second World War. The comparison is absolutely ludicrous. I'm not sure I understand what happened to this article? Why is it still here. I would agree that it should have been merged or deleted, but it looks like nothing ever happened. 138.32.32.44 21:34, 8 September 2006 (UTC
This is just an opnion piece. I am in the guard and think this articles slam of U.S. soldiers is extememely disrespectful.
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I'm not American, but why isnt there a navy national guard to go along with naval and air force reserve units? At least, merged into the same overall structure as the others. 58.7.204.212 09:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
There *are* Naval National Guard/Militia units in several states; New York, California, Texas and Ohio (Great Lakes--gotta keep the Canadians in their place!) at minimum; but the US Naval forces have always been predominately Federal rather than local.
As previous posters have indicated, there is not a good reason for this subject to be here. It takes a slangy phrase and attempts to elevate it to some sort of official doctrinal role. Several of my friends have been killed in active service as active-duty National Guard and quite frankly, this phrase is bullshit. None of us enlisted in the National Guard for "one weekend a month, two weeks a year"; we knew damn well what we were signing up for, and this phrase is simply insulting.
MST3k was the first place I heard this variant, back in 1993. Not sure if that directly contributed to the Iraq War photo. IMDB link Canute ( talk) 17:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, as of 2020 the plan outlined in this section to expand annual drill time to 7 weeks never materialized. Not sure what to do with that. Is the section even still relevant if it never actually came true?
Jason.W.Watkins ( talk) 02:01, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
We should include a definition of the term "One weekend a month, two weeks a year". From my calculations, 1 weekend per month equates to about 3.5 weeks per year so I don't understand what the literal meaning of the term is meant to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.229.125 ( talk) 16:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
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moved from Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/One weekend a month, two weeks a year:
Should be merged with Army National Guard. -- Paul Richter 03:30, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I removed the reference to the Home Gaurd of England during the Second World War. The comparison is absolutely ludicrous. I'm not sure I understand what happened to this article? Why is it still here. I would agree that it should have been merged or deleted, but it looks like nothing ever happened. 138.32.32.44 21:34, 8 September 2006 (UTC
This is just an opnion piece. I am in the guard and think this articles slam of U.S. soldiers is extememely disrespectful.
end moved discussion
I'm not American, but why isnt there a navy national guard to go along with naval and air force reserve units? At least, merged into the same overall structure as the others. 58.7.204.212 09:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
There *are* Naval National Guard/Militia units in several states; New York, California, Texas and Ohio (Great Lakes--gotta keep the Canadians in their place!) at minimum; but the US Naval forces have always been predominately Federal rather than local.
As previous posters have indicated, there is not a good reason for this subject to be here. It takes a slangy phrase and attempts to elevate it to some sort of official doctrinal role. Several of my friends have been killed in active service as active-duty National Guard and quite frankly, this phrase is bullshit. None of us enlisted in the National Guard for "one weekend a month, two weeks a year"; we knew damn well what we were signing up for, and this phrase is simply insulting.
MST3k was the first place I heard this variant, back in 1993. Not sure if that directly contributed to the Iraq War photo. IMDB link Canute ( talk) 17:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, as of 2020 the plan outlined in this section to expand annual drill time to 7 weeks never materialized. Not sure what to do with that. Is the section even still relevant if it never actually came true?
Jason.W.Watkins ( talk) 02:01, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
We should include a definition of the term "One weekend a month, two weeks a year". From my calculations, 1 weekend per month equates to about 3.5 weeks per year so I don't understand what the literal meaning of the term is meant to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.229.125 ( talk) 16:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)