Definition of national guards:
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a state-based military force that becomes part of the U.S. military's reserve components of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force when activated for federal missions.
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National guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries.
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a French military, gendarmerie, and police reserve force, active in its current form since 2016 but originally founded in 1789 during the French Revolution.
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The Nicaraguan (otherwise known as ) a militia and a gendarmerie created in 1925 during the occupation of Nicaragua by the United States.
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The Iraqi National Guard was an armed force originally established by the United States Coalition Provisional Authority.
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the national gendarmerie of El Salvador.