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Originally Posted by Michael Thayne
If you wanted the thing to be a bit of a snafu, I think you could justify that within 24 hours of the crisis becoming publicly obvious, there might be 10k national guardsmen on the scene, in addition to local law enforcement, but only 30% of LEOs and few guardsmen would have gas masks, and only 70% of guardsmen and a few LEOs (mostly SWAT) would have night vision. So a better-prepared enemy attacking with chemical weapons at night could gain a large advantage.
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If you want the thing to e a bit of a snafu call the National Guard in for what's obviously a regular military situation. The Guard is the _last_ line of military readiness. It's just called in to non-military situations because the US has a historical thing about a standing army being used against its' own citizens.
But Aliens? No, nobody is going to depend on the Guard to stop an alien invasion. The Guard isn't going to be any more relevant to an alien invasion than whether or not it had NV goggles in 1992.