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Originally Posted by Refplace
My step father was in the National Guard and he lived about 40 min from his base. I'd say an hour or two and your good, more might be unusual
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"Unusual" is a statistical question, I suppose. But a friend of mine served in the Guard (ANG) for many years, living about 2.5 hours drive from the base -- which was in a different state. There was no problem with that arrangement. Another friend was in the NG (Army), living about 3.5 hours from his base (same state).
There are notification and response time requirements which I don't recall offhand, but if memory serves it's 24 hours notice before you have to report (even for events that aren't scheduled -- those are well in advance). So whatever commute you can stand is probably acceptable. Individual unit commanders might have their own opinions, of course.