Missouri State Defense Force
The Home Guard, which reached a strength of over 6,000 men by the end of the war, was deployed several times to keep the peace after a number of labor strikes turned violent.By December 1941, the Missouri State Guard consisted of over 3,000 soldiers organized into five infantry regiments.In 1943 alone, the State Guard was responsible for responding to statewide flooding, ending a civil disturbance in Cape Girardeau, and fighting a large fire in Lamar which destroyed much of the town square.[12] In the event of the National Guard deploying outside of the state, the MSDF was assigned to assist in the mobilization process and assume the stateside duties of the National Guard for the duration of the deployment, including:[13] All U.S. states and territories are allowed to create and maintain their own military forces, independent of the federal military, under Title 32 of the United States Code.This guaranteed, among other protections, that employers of MSDF members were required to give those employees a leave of absence when they were activated for training or to perform emergency services, and to reinstate these employees to their positions of employment when they returned.
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