Destructo6
New member
I've been thinking about this for a bit and decided to throw it out and get some feedback.
While listening to the radio in my car a few weeks ago, the broadcast was rudely interrupted by that annoying buzz/beep of the emergency broadcast system, "this is only a test." I began to think that this would be a perfect way to call up the militia.
The individual militia members could be fully anonymous, simply muster to a given location that would be indicated in something like the phone book. Those that mustered would then be counted, but not identified in any way. A practice muster every 6 months would establish an approximate number of individuals that would probably appear during an actual emergency.
Those that mustered could then be organized into ad-hoc squads for security patrols or if there is some sort of natural disaster, the militia members could volunteer for relief efforts, but not be compelled in any way. In a relief capacity, the militia muster would simply be a quasi-organized way to quickly volunteer.
I certainly don't expect our current keepers to embrace this idea, but I think it has some merit.
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I offer neither pay nor quarters nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.
-Giuseppe Garabaldi
While listening to the radio in my car a few weeks ago, the broadcast was rudely interrupted by that annoying buzz/beep of the emergency broadcast system, "this is only a test." I began to think that this would be a perfect way to call up the militia.
The individual militia members could be fully anonymous, simply muster to a given location that would be indicated in something like the phone book. Those that mustered would then be counted, but not identified in any way. A practice muster every 6 months would establish an approximate number of individuals that would probably appear during an actual emergency.
Those that mustered could then be organized into ad-hoc squads for security patrols or if there is some sort of natural disaster, the militia members could volunteer for relief efforts, but not be compelled in any way. In a relief capacity, the militia muster would simply be a quasi-organized way to quickly volunteer.
I certainly don't expect our current keepers to embrace this idea, but I think it has some merit.
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I offer neither pay nor quarters nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not his lips only, follow me.
-Giuseppe Garabaldi