32 U.S.C. § 317 — Command during joint exercises with Federal troops
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When National Guard troops train alongside federal troops, federal officers stay in command. This holds true at the post, base, or site where the exercise happens. It applies no matter how senior the visiting Guard officers are.
This section decides who's in charge when National Guard troops train with federal troops.
Sometimes part of the National Guard, while not in federal service, joins an encampment, maneuver, or other training exercise together with troops who are in federal service. When that happens, command of the post, air base, or other location stays with the officers already in federal service who command that place — and it stays with them over the federal troops stationed there too.
This is true regardless of rank. Even if a National Guard officer who is not in federal service outranks the federal commander, that Guard officer does not take command just by temporarily joining the exercise.
When any part of the National Guard that is not in Federal service participates in an encampment, maneuver, or other exercise for instruction, together with troops in Federal service, the command of the post, air base, or other place where it is held, and of the troops in Federal service on duty there, remains with the officers in Federal service who command that place and the Federal troops on duty there, without regard to the rank of the officers of the National Guard not in Federal service who are temporarily participating in the exercise.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 605.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.
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