National Guard network expresses concerns on misuse of state armed forces

Christopher Purdy, founder and CEO of The Chamberlain Network, talks with podcast host Frank Knapp about the National Guard being inappropriately used by the Trump Administration. Knapp, CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, is also the managing director of the Secure Growth Initiative, a national small business coalition focusing on the need for positive immigration reform.Purdy gives the background of the National Guard: history, purpose, chain of command and authority of Governors and the President. He says that when the members of the Guard are federalized, they become part of the active military, which has legal limits on law enforcement activities within the country.Purdy is concerned about how misuse of the National Guard will negatively impact the Guard in moral, community trust, and readiness. He worries that members of the National Guard will start not renewing their contracts with the Guard and employers will start being uncomfortable in hiring a Guardsman if the National Guard becomes politicized.