Is This Becoming a General Strike?
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Most National Guard already have civilian jobs. They can't be at two jobs at the same time.
Unless they are deployed for government purposes. It is not just the NG. There is the SES, FEMA, and other agencies working under the CoG function. It's all been already laid out.
They don't have enough for CoG from those agencies. They need military to fill in gaps for CoG.
I'm glad to hear you are knowledgeable about this subject. All those capstone FEMA exercises and coordination efforts in the past were conducted to prove your point that there isn't enough people for CoG operations. That means resources have to come from elsewhere. Do I dare mention international and the UN? Other?
My entire point is the strikers must assure their jobs are not filled and being replaced.
For the UN to mobilize it would take half a year. FEMA for example can't mobilize within a month of a hurricane disaster. Living in Florida we know for a fact that FEMA isn't going to "help" within a month. So we plan accordingly to be self sufficient in the case of a disaster. Federal government may wield some power but it is still a cumbersome giant in the grand scheme of things.
The US military is the only one with the proper logistics to mobilize within a month and even then it takes time if we are talking about a nationwide effort.