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National Guard
noun
- state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia ( def 2 ).
National Guard
noun
- sometimes not capitals the armed force, first commanded by Lafayette, that was established in France in 1789 and existed intermittently until 1871
- (in the US) a state military force that can be called into federal service by the president
National Guard
- The volunteer military forces of each state, which the governor of a state can summon in times of civil disorder or natural disaster. Through congressional and presidential order, the National Guard can be called into service in the regular United States army.
Example Sentences
In 2020, a Chihuahua woman was killed during clashes between National Guard troops and Mexican farmers, who forcibly blocked dams that were being used to send flows from the Rio Grande to the U.S.
We passed by a checkpoint manned by the National Guard and the LAPD, then had to stop for 20 minutes on a narrow hillside road as a backhoe was unloaded from a flatbed truck.
And following Trump’s tariff threats, Mexico vowed to send 10,000 National Guard troops to its northern border.
There have been periods when the federal government took more control: When the National Guard, for example, forced schools in the South to allow Black students to attend the same campuses as white students.
The protests, which saw acts of violence and vandalism, started in April 2016 and ended in February 2017, when the National Guard and police cleared away the demonstrators.
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