Quote Originally Posted by arrogcow View Post
Since when do enlisted personel have to pay for BDU's?

Adam
Because this is the TN State Guard, not the TN National Guard. Many states have "local defense forces", for lack of a better term, that serve as an auxillary of sorts to the National Guard:

http://www.sgaus.org/mhistory.htm

State Defense Forces do not leave the state and cannot be federalized for service by the national government like the National Guard. During the Civil War, for example, Missouri maintained an enrolled militia that was used only for home defense and did not leave the state.

The way I understand it, SDFs are similar to the Coast Guard Auxillary.

Regards,

Todd