Can a governor order NG troops home?

[UDenver20]

They're under his/her command, right?

Can anyone from the military or with a better understanding of how this works politically answer this?

[damntexdem]

1. I believe that once they're ordered up by the feds, they're under ...

federal military command.

[babylonsister]

2. I don't think so. A gov. from somewhere

far north of here wanted the NG home because of the state's yearly devastating fire season and was denied.

[havocmom]

4. That'd be MY governor, Brian Switzer. He knew it would be denied

but he had the balls to make the point with a lot of Beltway boys and it got him much national media exposure for his point that the Guard was supposed to be state-side to take care of emergencies HERE except under the most sever and serious national threats abroad.

He is really a guy to watch and learn from.

[Catch22Dem]

3. Not under a Governor's command once they've been activated...

for a federal response.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. Tried, litigated and lost...

...in the 1980's by Massachusetts and its governor, Mike Dukakis. He tried to keep his NG from being sent to Honduras during Reagan's war in Central America.