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State Defense Force Times Message from the President Winter 2020 MG Jay Coggan • Increase our external California State Guard communications to educate the public and government at all First, as we start off a new year, let me levels as to our mission congratulate BG Hayhurst and BG • Expand training opportunities Santiago for a great annual conference in across the country and online Biloxi, MS. Unfortunately, prior California State Guard commitments kept Internal communications have been me from attending, but I received great driven mostly by our web, newsletter, and feedback from our members. Your periodic announcements. We will be dedication and work is appreciated! updating our email capabilities to provide As we move into 2020 we have the more relevant and timely information to opportunity to build on our past success our members. To make this effort and make this a transformative year. My successful, I ask that each member please singular mission focus for SAGUS this go to their member profile in the SGAUS year is to improve our communications to web site make sure your contact and make us the most effective organization email information is current. We are that we can be. My key strategies to establishing a team to evaluate and accomplish this goal are: implement new strategies for internal communications. More information on • Improve our communications with this effort will be forthcoming. members 1 Now, regarding external communications, opportunity for SGAUS to SDF help our I firmly believe that this year SGAUS can respective states deal with this issue. take it to the next level in how we make It’s never too early to start planning for ourselves known outside our association the 2020 SAGUS Annual Conference. walls. That will require a formal external Mark your calendars for 9-12 September marketing strategy, followed by specific 2020 at the Wyndham Irvine, in Orange actions and timelines. I believe that once County, CA. The hotel is located less we get this implemented, our SDF than a mile from John Wayne Airport recruitment numbers across the nation (SNA), minutes from some of will improve significantly. We want to California’s best beaches and only a short help the SDF’s do a better job in drive from Disneyland. Start making your recruiting so we are going to have a team plans now. focus on the development of the strategy and also developing tools and recruitment I hoped you had a joyous holiday season best practices that our SDF’s can use. and I wish you all a Happy New Year full Bottom line, we want to be not only of joy and prosperity, but also full of useful to our members, but also a value- desire to make SGAUS better. add source for all our SDF’s and their Commanders. Thank you. An example of how we are expanding our Maj. Gen. Jay Coggan, President training activates was the first Expert SGAUS Medical program created by our our Medical Committee. The Field Casualty Course event at Camp Atterbury, Indiana Editor’s Note: In addition to serving as was not only a success, but sets the bar the Commanding General of the for where we are going with training. California State Military Reserve, Major Thank you to Drs. Ungar and Cohen for General (CA) Jay M. Coggan currently making this possible. We will be again serves as the Chief Counsel – Cyber offering the program at Camp Atterbury Operations for the California Military in 2020. This is just one example how we Department. In this capacity, he is can bring the best training and practices responsible for legal issues in the realm to all of our members. of cyber defense for the California In 2020 we are starting the planning National Guard’s mission of defense process for establishing our support of civil authorities, and the Cybersecurity center of excellence. This protection of California’s critical project has been conceptualized for some infrastructure. His biography can be time and now is the time to bring it found at https://calguard.ca.gov/wp- forward into reality. Cybersecurity is one content/uploads/sites/62/2019/05/MG- of the most pressing challenges to our Coggan-Biography.pd national security and this is an 2 From the Sergeant Major’s Desk…. SGM Fred Tredy SGAUS MEMS Academy Commandant Know your MEMS Academy State Directors The information below is a listing of all of the MEMS Academy State Directors for 2020. Most of the links are active and current. Stay in touch with these leaders for information in your state regarding MEMS. ALABAMA ALASKA COL Robert Clark LTC John Bilyeu [email protected] [email protected] ARKANSAS ARIZONA Mr. Charles Whorton MAJ Malcolm K.C. [email protected] PRESHÁ [email protected] CALIFORNIA COLORADO SGM Fred Tredy [email protected] TBD WO-1 Derek Kantar (Deputy ASD) [email protected] CONNECTICUT STATE DELAWARE MILITIA LTC Victor Metta [email protected] LTC John Grant [email protected] FLORIDA GEORGIA John Corfield, CW4 Lloyd Garrard, ASD [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] l COL Anthony S. Evangelista (Deputy ASD) [email protected] s 3 HAWAII Inactive SDF GUAM Jeffrey Barone IDAHO Deputy Emergency Manager Joint Region Marianas CSM James Brewer [email protected] [email protected] ILLINOIS I NDIANA CSM Tim White CSM Timothy J. White [email protected] [email protected] m IOWA KANSAS Kent Ward James Slater [email protected] [email protected] KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MAJ Alan Bagley COL Gene Barattini [email protected] [email protected] om MAINE MARYLAND LTC Charles McCarthy CW4 J. Eric Drummer [email protected] [email protected] MASSACHUSETTS * MICHIGAN LTC Charles McCarthy CW5 Gordon Karslake [email protected] [email protected] m MINNESOTA MISSISSIPPI * In Active SDF LTC John S. Brown [email protected] Missouri MONTANA Kent Ward [email protected] NEBRASKA NEW HAMPSHIRE Inactive SDF LTC Charles McCarth [email protected] 4 NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO CW3 John Molner MAJ Malcolm K.C. [email protected] PRESHÁ [email protected] NEW YORK NEVADA LTC John Grant WO-1 Derek Kantar [email protected] [email protected] NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA Joseph Thaxton [email protected] OHIO OKLAHOMA CSM John K. Ball CW2 Tod Nutt – ASD [email protected] [email protected] LTC Roger Patrick Deputy State Director [email protected] Ohio Naval Militia CMDCM Todd Waddell [email protected]. gov OREGON PENNSYLVANIA CPT Terry Pietras COL Ricky Clay [email protected] [email protected] PUERTO RICO RHODE ISLAND MSgt Pedro Gonzalez LTC Charles McCarthy [email protected] [email protected] Deputy ASD COL Jesus “Nesty” Delgado [email protected] SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA Adam W. Dillon, Inactive SDF CPT(P), SCSG [email protected] 5 TENNESSEE TEXAS MAJ Alan Bagley CW2 Tod Nutt – ASD [email protected] [email protected] Utah VERMONT CPT Chris Custer MAJ Ira Salom [email protected] [email protected] VIRGINIA US Virgin Islands James H. Reid, Jr, CPT (VA) MSgt Pedro Gonzalez [email protected] [email protected] om WASHINGTON (State) WASHINGTON D.C. * CSM James Brewer LTC Victor Metta [email protected] [email protected] WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN James H. Reid, Jr, CPT TBD [email protected] WYOMING Special Unit and Organizations LTC John Rumple (TX) SFC Robert Anthon (WI) 28th Southwest Expeditionary [email protected] Brigade, RLA (Airborne) AVR, USV-JSC [email protected] LTC Kenneth Cauthrone (VA) United States Volunteer Corps [email protected] om 6 MEMS Academy Liaison and Staff Officers AMERICAN CADET ACADEMY J.A.G. ALLIANCE COL Eugene F. Rogers, George Berghorn, Liaison Officer (SC) [email protected] [email protected] Past COMMANDANT/PR/ Founder/First INTERNATIONAL MEMS Commandant PROGRAM LTC George H. Heart, Ret LTC Roger Higby, (CA) (WA) [email protected] [email protected] Civil Authority Southern States Civil Authority Northern Christopher Earp (TX) States [email protected] Anthony Lamb, (KS) [email protected] 7 SGAUS Winter 2019 SDF Newsletter can no longer afford to sideline these national security assets. Since the founding of the United States of America, local militias have played an important role in its defense and security. Bolstered by the Founding Father’s concerns The 21st-Century Militia: State Defense about maintaining a large standing army and Forces and Homeland Security preserved within the Constitution, the concept of the citizen soldier has since James Carafano and Jessica Zuckerman become ingrained in American culture and government. Editors Note: This article was originally published by the Heritage Foundation on Currently, 23 states and territories have October 8, 2010, and is reprinted with modern militias. As of 2005, these militias permission. Carafano and Zuckerman had a force strength of approximately provide a compelling argument for the 14,000 individuals nationwide. Most existence and support of State Defense commonly known as State Defense Forces Forces. The original publication with (SDFs) or state militias, these forces are references can be found at distinct from the Reserves and the National https://www.heritage.org/homeland- Guard in that they serve no federal function. security/report/the-21st-century-militia- In times of both war and peace, SDFs state-defense-forces-and-homeland-security remain solely under the control of their or by selecting Download Report. governors, allowing the governors to deploy them easily and readily in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Abstract: State militias have helped to defend the United States since the Building on a strong U.S.