US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

210.  The National Guard consists of:
   (a) General officers.
   (b) The several staff corps and departments prescribed in tables
of organization of the United States Army or United States Air Force
or tables of organization for the National Guard.
   (c) The officers and enlisted men and women on the retired and the
reserve lists.
   (d) The organizations forming the National Guard and persons
enlisted or commissioned therein.



211.  The Governor may alter, divide, annex, consolidate, disband,
or reorganize any organization, department, or corps and create new
organizations, departments, or corps when required by the provisions
of this division or whenever in his judgment the efficiency of the
State forces will be thereby increased.
   The Governor may also change the organization of any organization,
department, or corps so as to conform to any system of drill, or
instruction prescribed by the laws of the United States for the
National Guard and for that purpose the number of the officers and
noncommissioned officers of any grade may be increased or diminished
and the grades of such officers and noncommissioned officers may be
altered to the extent necessary to secure such conformity.



212.  The inactive National Guard shall consist of those
organizations, officers, and enlisted men and women as are authorized
and prescribed by the laws of the United States and regulations
issued thereunder.


213.  Members of the California National Guard who have reverted
from federal control to state control thereby become members of the
State Military Reserve and are subject to Chapter 3 (commencing with
Section 550) of Part 2 of this division for the unexpired period of
their enlistment or appointment, unless upon reversion the members
are assigned to active units of the California National Guard which
have not been called or ordered into federal service.



214.  During the absence of organizations of the National Guard in
the service of the United States, their State or Federal designations
shall not be given to new organizations.



215.  For all purposes under this code, commissioned officers,
warrant officers and enlisted men and women of the California
National Guard, California Air National Guard and California National
Guard Reserve who have heretofore or hereafter performed service in
the United States Army, United States Air Force, United States Navy,
or any reserve component thereof shall be entitled to credit for time
so served as if that service had been rendered in the state forces.
Service in the state forces shall include all full-time active duty
performed heretofore or hereafter either as an enlisted man or woman,
warrant officer or commissioned officer pursuant to any prior or
present section or sections or provisions of this code.  Federal law
notwithstanding, in computing state service for retirement with pay
under this authority, only full-time active service with the armed
forces of the United States or any reserve component thereof shall be
considered.



216.  Former members of the National Guard who have been honorably
discharged for "expiration of term of service" or on account of
"removal" and have returned to the limits of their commands, and
officers who have resigned or have been honorably discharged, or
whose terms have expired, who reenlist or reenter the National Guard
within ninety days from the date of their discharge or the expiration
of their term of office, shall be given credit for continuous
service, and the enlistment considered consecutive.