Sorry to link to a reddit thread on this. I was checking in on enemy coms over there when I saw this juicy planefag thread and thought I should bring it to y'alls attention.
https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/14z4k8s/us_army_has_just_launched_helicopters_from_every/
Executive order 13912 federalized the National Guard and the NG is active outside of their home states and overseas. "Biden" has extended this eo through March 2024.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-13912-national-emergency-authority-order-the-selected-reserve-and-certain
National Guard is not the "reserves"; they are (state) National Guard. There is a VERY big difference. The US reserves (example US Army Reserves, US Coast Guard Reserves, etc) are federal forces, paid exclusively by the federal government. The National Guard is run by the state's governor (PA, LA, TN, etc.) and paid by the state AND a little from the federal government. The "resident" can call a governor to activate their national guard but it takes an act of Congress to activate the reserves.
I am a very literal person: reserves is reserves and national guard is national guard.
Maybe to some it is just semantics but there is a big difference between the two.
I think whoever is writing these articles, reporting this stuff, doesn't know what they are talking about, which doesn't surprise me.
I understand that, and I'm literal as well. Please read the eo, the sauce. The Reserves and the IRR are specifically written within the eo. This is not an act of Congress, this is an Executive Order.