There's enough guardsman in this country that if this happened nation-wide, they could form the skeleton of an unstoppable insurgency against the deep state, especially if they just decided to keep all the heavy hardware. They are outnumbered by the regulars, but there's still roughly 400,000 of them, and they've got all the same gear as the Marines and the Army and the Air force. The pentagon can threaten all they like, but they're just playing chicken, or else they risk a civil war.
There's enough guardsman in this country that if this happened nation-wide, they could form the skeleton of an unstoppable insurgency against the deep state, especially if they just decided to keep all the heavy hardware. They are outnumbered by the regulars, but there's still roughly 400,000 of them, and they've got all the same gear as the Marines and the Army and the Air force. The pentagon can threaten all they like, but they're just playing chicken, or else they risk a civil war.
The regulars may outnumber guard members, but the guard has about 10 million competent patriots backing them up.
Thank you. Exactly.