Talk:One weekend a month, two weeks a year

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moved from Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/One weekend a month, two weeks a year:

Should be merged with Army National Guard. -- Paul Richter 03:30, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• Delete: Long standing, once and future recruiting pitch (he can't win election again). The article creation is a hidden political statement. (Not that I don't agree. I could rant for a long time on the subject.) Geogre 04:15, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• It wasn't supposed to be a political statement. I wrote down a list of things I wasn't sure WP had and them tried to crate articles for them. Admittedly, the list was only two items long and the other one was laugh track. I'm not trying to be political at any level. -Litefantastic 11:58, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable, really was used - wikipedia is designed to keep all knowledge and such. So it is worth an article.
• Redirect The information is in the Army National Guard article. - Lifefeed 16:29, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
• delete or merge; coverd in Army National Guard article. Fledgeling 21:50, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect. -Sean Curtin 02:30, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect at best. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 16:51, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep there is alot which should be built up around this. I made an attempt, but only with internet sources so it comes out a little one sided. Mozzerati 23:20, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)
• Delete. The slogan and any controversy surrounding it could be discussed in the National Guard page I suppose, but this is unnecessary. Indrian 23:52, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Mark Richards 01:44, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. It's just a slogan. --Improv 03:00, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep or merge complete text to Army National Guard. --Key45 22:42, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. [[User:Rhymeless|Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 20:26, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
• Redirect Let the editors of Army National Guard decide whether this warrants mention. Apparently it is already mentioned in that article. It looks like it is someone's soapbox. --BM 03:41, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• hmm.. Wikipedia:Deletion policy#What to do with a problem page/image/category Problems that don't require deletion -> Article is biased or has lots of POV: Solution:- List on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention Add this tag: {{npov}}. It's already too long to help the National Guard article and whilst, in my belief it's important since hundreds of thousands of people have joined the national guard after having heard it (whether they believed it or not), it's not an issue which should have such a long section of that article. Please instead, make the effort to point out what is inaccurate on the talk page and to add what is missing. A good source for this might be the army recruiting page which has some warnings about what service will really be like. You will have to look back in archive.org since otherwise you won't be sure what they said at the time. Mozzerati 21:05, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)

• Keep: As a former member of the Home Guard in my country I always wondered what the US equivalent is and what it entails. From time to time I have checked the different articles about the National Guard without getting a good explanation. But today I found this article and it explained it. So normally it entails "One weekend a month, two weeks a year". Unless there is "war" and you are sent to full time duty for some months or more. And I like that this article mentions the issue of if the planned wars abroad should be included in the service for the members of the National Guard or not. Here in Sweden the Home Guard members can't be ordered to service abroad. Only our regular military and volunteers are sent to Kosovo, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Mali, etc. Our Home Guard is an actual "Home Guard" or "National Guard": It stays at home guarding the country against invasion. (And I know I am 16 years late to this discussion.) --David Göthberg (talk) 16:49, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

I removed the reference to the Home Gaurd of England during the Second World War. The comparison is absolutely ludicrous. I'm not sure I understand what happened to this article? Why is it still here. I would agree that it should have been merged or deleted, but it looks like nothing ever happened. 138.32.32.44 21:34, 8 September 2006 (UTC

This is just an opnion piece. I am in the guard and think this articles slam of U.S. soldiers is extememely disrespectful.

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Navy Reserve?::

I'm not American, but why isnt there a navy national guard to go along with naval and air force reserve units? At least, merged into the same overall structure as the others. 58.7.204.212 09:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

There *are* Naval National Guard/Militia units in several states; New York, California, Texas and Ohio (Great Lakes--gotta keep the Canadians in their place!) at minimum; but the US Naval forces have always been predominately Federal rather than local.

As previous posters have indicated, there is not a good reason for this subject to be here. It takes a slangy phrase and attempts to elevate it to some sort of official doctrinal role. Several of my friends have been killed in active service as active-duty National Guard and quite frankly, this phrase is bullshit. None of us enlisted in the National Guard for "one weekend a month, two weeks a year"; we knew damn well what we were signing up for, and this phrase is simply insulting.

One weekend a month, my ass!

MST3k was the first place I heard this variant, back in 1993. Not sure if that directly contributed to the Iraq War photo. IMDB link Canute (talk) 17:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Remove or edit "Army's future annual drill plans" section

As far as I can tell, as of 2020 the plan outlined in this section to expand annual drill time to 7 weeks never materialized. Not sure what to do with that. Is the section even still relevant if it never actually came true?

Jason.W.Watkins (talk) 02:01, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

It seems like a significant part of this article is out of date. Canute (talk) 16:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Meaning

We should include a definition of the term "One weekend a month, two weeks a year". From my calculations, 1 weekend per month equates to about 3.5 weeks per year so I don't understand what the literal meaning of the term is meant to be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.229.125 (talk) 16:10, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

I agree this should be explained in the article, preferably in the first section. Section "Army's future annual drill plans" seems to indicate that it actually means "One weekend a month, AND two weeks a year". So I assume those two weeks mean they go away to some camp for two weeks, or perhaps one week at a time but twice a year?

When I served in the Home Guard here in Sweden we could do one week winter camp (skiing and stuff), and one week summer camp, and some weekends, in addition to the usual Tuesday evening meetings. But we only had to do a total of 20 hours a year back then to keep our uniform and rifle. Most of our "Home Guards men" had also served about a year of mandatory national military service (conscription).

--David Göthberg (talk) 04:19, 12 March 2023 (UTC)