Should State Militias become more active in Homeland Defense?

It is a constitutional requirement. An uneasy one to be sure, but it is in there.

I am very weary of these State Forces. We have guards. These militias don't have a common standard across the board and seldom try in anything less than support operations. NC doesn't have a State Militia. It was banned a while back. Someone made a state militia association but that really isn't anything that the state controls. I just don't like armed groups that have poor, if any, training. A lot of the time you attract the wrong crowd into this. I had a soldier I served with do this stuff. He was crazy as Stuff. He was also a stolen valor. He said he was a ranger. Never was. He was down at the bundy ranch. People like him go into these groups and often go unopposed.

I am a big proponent of bringing back volunteer militia units so long as they operate within the rule of law. Several states have state defense forces but they are a defense force in name only. Usually they are little more than free labor to augment the guard and suffer from recruitment and retention problems. This can be addressed by making them an armed force but there would need to be some controls in place.

Virginia has one. It's not a very large force. It's more of a support force than anything else. They don't carry guns. They're all volunteer. It's more "public service" than "military."

State militias do not share the same chain-of-command.

"The ASDF is an adjunct, volunteer, augmenting force to the Alabama National Guard and is not federally recognized. Currently, the ASDF is inactive awaiting reorganization by the Alabama National Guard."

Alabama went a step further and "gave the American Legion of Alabama the responsibility for creating and running its State Guard,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_State_Defense_Force

I could do an hour on this with Pro's and Con's. The bottom line is that I urge everyone to become more familiar with the christian Hstory of the Constitution of the United States of America and a solid study of both the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers wouldn't hurt either.

Only if they are not a part of the 3%er world and are sanctioned by the State they are in. If not, they need to stick to home defense.