How does the US National Guard deploy? I always understood it to be made up of a group of people basically on call that then report to their base in your city and then go out from there. Am I wrong?
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It depends on what you mean by ‘deploy’. For overseas deployments, you would normally ramp up local training at the armory (where your unit trains on weekends) to prepare. At some point, equipment is loaded and shipped. Then you either leave from the armory (or fly from your home of record) to a training center for a couple of months, then fly overseas from there.
For extended training within the US, you might fly from home, or assemble at your local armory and draw equipment and vehicles, then convoy to the training base. Depends on where you’re going and what you needed to bring.
For emergency response, you normally assemble at the armory, draw equipment, and convoy from there.
In any case, most of a unit’s gear and weapons are stored at the armory (other than combat vehicles, which are at the nearest base), so that’s usually the first stop. Also so nobody is driving their own vehicle into a disaster area or anything.
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