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You have your army, perhaps it is a Badass Army, or just a Redshirt Army, but in any case, it is the standing army of your (nation-)state, with everything that entails. Of course, not everybody in the army does it for a living. Some folks just do it for the bit of extra pay, or the college benefits, or as a way to keep connected with the military after they retire and settle down to start a family. These guys are the Home Guard. Typically, they will get called up when the nation goes to war, or in the event of a natural disaster or civil unrest. Many of them will be military veterans who got out of the regular army, or folks who had imminent life plans that precluded being away from home permanently. In more desperate situations, the Home Guard might include people who otherwise would not have been accepted into the military, but are being organized into a militia as a last ditch defense of their homes. Depending on a variety of circumstances, they might be equipped with obsolete weapons and equipment from decades past, or even less. In more ideal situations, they will use the same equipment as the regular troops, to better allow them to serve along side them in combat when needed. Even the version of the trope where the Home Guard is little more than a Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits armed with whatever they have on hand, it can be justified as freeing up more troops to fight the enemy before they can invade the home country. In practice, these forces might also be called the Reserves or the Militia, with either name (in the United States, at least) carrying different connotations. From an American point of view, "Militia" sounds more like Training the Peaceful Villagers at best, and more like "Right-Wing Militia Fanatic" at worse. "Reserves" gives more of an impression of professional soldiers (again, from an American audience's perspective). If they end up getting invaded and defeated, expect these guys to help form La Résistance. Named for the British Home Guard troops who were formed to protect Great Britain in the event of German invasion during World War II.note Nazi Germany had their own version, the Volkssturm, discussed later in this article, though it was far more pathetic and was only formed in the last days of the war. Most people would be surprised at how much action the Reserves actually see in Real Life, at least in the United States armed forces. In most armed conflicts, the active components are mostly only involved during the main fighting, while the post-war peacekeeping, policing and rebuilding operations, which are just as dangerous or even more so, usually go to the reserve components. In Operation Iraqi Freedom, for example, many United States National Guardsmen and Army Reserves served longer deployments than any of the active components did, and as such were exposed to dangers not seen by those who were involved in the main fighting (those videos you see of IEDs blowing up HMMWVs are most likely National Guardsmen or Reserves). Reserve components also tend to be more career-oriented: you see more Reserves staying until retirement age than active component soldiers. See also Training the Peaceful Villagers and Instant Militia. |
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Frequently shows up in the Jack Ryan series by Tom Clancy. In particular, a brigade of the North Carolina National Guard plays a pivotal role in Executive Orders, General Gennady Iosefovitch Bondarenko manages to field an entire division of reservists in The Bear And The Dragon, and John Kelly (later John Clark) is threatened with being recalled to active duty since he checked the box for joining the reserves in Without Remorse. | |
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Various characters in the Honor Harrington series are mentioned in passing as being members of their armed forces' Reserves. Typically, such characters will be a bit older and wiser than their similarly-ranked companions, and officers of the Grayson Space Navy reserve forces are mentioned as having slightly different rank insignia. | |
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Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series sees the Confederacy use an under-equipped Home Guard/Reserve force due to not having sufficient manpower. They're mostly young boys, old men, or those with a disability like a missing hand that prevents them from fighting in the regular armed forces. They're also woefully unable to do anything beyond basic guard duty, and even fighting the black Socialists is barely within their ability. | |
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Horrible Histories has had several sketches about the British Home Guard. | |
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Went the Day Well?: Briefly features a British Home Guard unit who get brutally gunned down in an ambush while cycling home. | |
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Champions of Far'aus: In Dorawn, the capital city of Galemore, a portion of the country's military is employed there to function as City Guards, since Dorawn is where Galemore's military personnel are trained. Skye, who grew up there, notes to Flamel that training "stay-at-home-people" on top of everything else would just be a waste of the city's time and resources. | |
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Whisky Galore! is about a Mildly Military Home Guard unit on a remote Scottish island. The second-in-command can't leave his house one night because he's been grounded by his mother. Another soldier in the Guard can't find his helmet because his mum's using it to feed the chickens. Captain Waggett, the commander, does stuff like build roadblocks to look busy, even though the island only has one road and it's a circle. | |
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The Elenium: Sparhawk, Platime, and Stragen organize a home guard note they even use that term to defend the city of Cimmura after Ehlana is restored to her throne. It's not clear how many of the citizens actually have prior military experience, but they manage to impress Wargun a few chapters later. | |
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Valkyria Chronicles: The Gallian Militia unit that the protagonist commands is an example of a home-guard, constituting members of the nation from all ranks: singers, wealthy heiresses, university students, bakers... | |
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks. The World War II British Home Guard appears several times in the movie, including firing at the retreating German commando. They even have their own song, which supplies the page quote. | |
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Air Raid Wardens: One of Laurel and Hardy's later features, with Stan and Ollie as bumbling goofs who join the local Civil Defense patrol after the outbreak of World War II. They wind up foiling an actual Nazi sabotage plot. | |
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In Heinlein's Time Enough for Love Lazarus Long's grandfather Ira attempts to enlist in the Army at the start of WWI but is rejected due to his age, despite the fact that he doesn't look like he's pushing 90. But he manages to get into the Home Guard no problem, in logistics. | |
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According to their shoulder sleeve insignia, the squad in Kelly's Heroes are members of the 35th Infantry Division, which is a National Guard unit. | |
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In Beach of the War Gods, the peaceful villagers of a fishing town becomes this after a Training the Peaceful Villagers montage, to defend their homes from a pirate raid. All their members are fishermen or otherwise non-combatants, and serve as a Redshirt Army in a huge battle sequence. | |
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Foyle's War: Appears in several episodes, as one might expect of a series set on the British Home Front. The episode War Games initially involves a suspicious death during some Home Guard manoeuvres, while the episode They Fought In The Fields briefly features a Home Guard captain who appears to be a vicar. | |
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Halo: Most UNSC planets have a force of Colonial Militia, who are often the first line of defense when standard UNSC forces are not present; it was the Harvest militia who fought humanity's first major battle against the Covenant. However, the only militia seen in the games themselves are the Reach militiamen in Halo: Reach's "Nightfall" level. While a number of more autonomous human worlds, like Sedra and Gao, maintain their own proper militaries (complete with starships), their equipment still is vastly inferior to those of standard UNSC forces; for example, the Sedran Colonial Guard's standard-issue pistol is 200 years out of date. | |
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In the Wing Commander novel End Run, Colonel Bondarevsky warns the pilots under his command that the pilots they'll find defending the Kilrathi homeworld of Kilrah will not be typical aging "Home Guard" pilot with "rusting armor", but rather a very well trained and equipped force of some of their most experienced and skilled pilots. | |
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The 14 Amazons: The Yang family's army consists entirely of home guards, conscripts and volunteers, due to the family patriach, General Yang, being defeated in battle and the entire Imperial army dying in the war. | |
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In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Mr. Garrison, Mr. Mackey, Uncle Jimbo, Ned, Randy Marsh and Chef are all either Colorado National Guardsmen or Army Reservists and they're called up during the American-Canadian War. | |
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The Big Red One. The Squad find themselves confronted by Volksturm armed with pitchforks and pictures of Adolf Hitler. It looks like a massacre is about to take place, but they quickly surrender when the Sarge fires his gun over their heads. | |
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Dad's Army: Based on the writers' experiences in the Home Guard during World War II. Most of the humour stems from the fact that the members are too old, too young, or just incompetent in that bumbling English way. | |
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In Albedo: Erma Felna EDF planets in the Confederation have Home Guard units that are usually equipped like modern day armies, complete with tanks. But they're still looked down upon by the Extraplanetary Defense Force, which sometimes has to train underexperienced units on border worlds. | |
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M*A*S*H: Lt. Col. Henry Blake was in the Army Reserve. Several patients mention they are Guardsmen and were called up. | |
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Laverne & Shirley: Both Laverne and Shirley are Army Reservists. | |
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The West Wing: Shortly after joining the Senior Staff it's revealed that Will Bailey is a First Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve, specifically in the JAG corps. Congressman Matt Santos is a former fighter pilot and current reservist. When he starts running for President there's debate over whether to use his status to show his expertise, or whether it will look like they're using the military for political gain. Santos deals with it by pausing his campaign so he can do his next round of reservist training immediately, before the press can get wind of it, making it clear how much he values the position. |
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Paradoxus: Supposedly, the students of Alfea (fairies), Cloud Tower (witches), and Red Fountain (specialists) are trained to be the guardians of their homeworlds and, by extension, of the entire dimension. Unfortunately, having their regulating entity, the Council of Rocalucce, utterly corrupted by power-hungry bastards means these students get far-from-optimal training. When the dimensional war against the Burning Legion knocks on their doors, they either desert or are promptly killed. That’s why the Tyrannus Division is formed. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights: The Sheriff and his men. Robin takes a cheap shot at the Sheriff, who seized his family's property while Robin was fighting in the Crusades. | |
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In Wing Commander IV, Vagabond mentions that after the Kilrathi War ended, he took a billet in the Reserves, thinking it would be some easy money for little work now that they were at peace. So of course he got recalled to active duty for the next crisis. Blair is also in the Reserves, and finds himself recalled as well (by Maniac, who throws in a mock-fanfare while issuing the order in a seedy bar). In the Wing Commander novel End Run, Colonel Bondarevsky warns the pilots under his command that the pilots they'll find defending the Kilrathi homeworld of Kilrah will not be typical aging "Home Guard" pilot with "rusting armor", but rather a very well trained and equipped force of some of their most experienced and skilled pilots. Also from Wing Commander IV, we have the Border Worlds Militia. In the game, they are shown to be a somewhat ragtag force with modern (if somewhat nonstandard compared to what Confed flies) equipment. In the novelization, they are flying barely-holding together ships that would have been at home on the flight deck of the Tiger's Claw ten or twenty years earlier. |
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Fury (2014) has the Hitler Youth as a very much active part of the German defenses at the end of World War II. | |
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The Warhammer 40,000 equivalent is the PDF (Planetary Defense Forces). Their quality is variable: usually they're a whoever the conscripters could catch but if the planet was recently conquered they may be some of the Imperial Guard's most experienced veterans. Nonetheless, they are considered as underequipped and far less competent by the Imperial Guard. We repeat: the Imperial Guard, Butt-Monkey Cannon Fodder extraordinaire, believes the PDF to be beneath them. This is usually for the straightforward reason that the best PDF troopers get inducted into the Guard. The Cadian Interior Guard is one of the better-equipped PDF units— one in ten soldiers (soldiers of Cadia being just about everyone at some point in their lives), regardless of skill, are recruited to the PDF, so Cadia actually has a home guard better than many planets' best troops. Seeing how as Cadia is a World of Badass sitting right in front of a giant Hellgate Negative Space Wedgie, it's probably for the best. Note that is the reverse of most planets, where 10% of the PDF is tithed to the Imperial Guard and shipped off-world. The planet of Perlia got a "speedbump's speedbump" in the form of the Planetary Defence Volunteers, established by Ciaphas Cain in the sixth novel of the series. The author also used it as a chance to make an extended Shout-Out to Dad's Army. The Ultramar Auxilia serve as the PDF for the Ultramar sector controlled by the Ultramarines. Unlike other PDF, they are disciplined and steeled from training mandated by Ultramarines and the region is prosperous enough for them to be equipped accordingly well - as such the Ultramar Auxilia subverts the Home Guard trope in the case of many regiments who are meant to be available for deployment outside of Ultramar a bit like the Imperial Guard. In terms of the Xenos races, the Guardians can be considered this for the Eldar, as they are Eldar taken from non-military paths in times of need and used as foot troops. The Tau tend to employ the denizens of worlds that they conquer as its defenders, at least those that give themselves over to the Greater Good. Humans from Tau-controlled worlds are referred to as Gue'vesa (literally 'human helpers') and used as auxiliaries. |
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As The Laundry Files continues, so many people have become aware of The Masquerade that it's no longer practical to conscript them into the Laundry. Instead anyone who's more useful where they are is inducted, trained, then let back into the workplace as a reserve force to be drawn on in emergencies. Officially their absence is explained by their working part-time for the Territorial Army. | |
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In First Blood, the local Washington State National Guard is called up to search for John Rambo after he attacks the police station, causes (by accident, admittedly) a deputy to fall out of a helicopter and traps the sheriff and his deputies in the woods. Once Rambo starts firing at them with a stolen M16, several Guardsmen hide behind cover and complain that they never signed up for this and that they have their day jobs to worry about. | |
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Zeus: Master of Olympus: Rabble/Archers are military units formed from the common population (as opposed to the hoplites/spearmen and horsemen/charioteers from elite housing). They're the only ranged unit, and while they can be effective in combat (and for the particularly ruthless, can eventually wear down an attacking monster), it's far more efficient to simply bribe an attacking army to go away (especially since mustering them lowers the amount of workers you have, which can lead to devolving housing, reducing the population even worse than if the enemy army had broken through). There's a total limit of twenty military squads, and it's possible to have so many elite soldiers that there are no more citizen army squads left. As befitting a Home Guard unit, they can't be sent abroad to conquer/relieve other cities. | |
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In BattleTech, the various Successor States of the Inner Sphere often have little more than a garrison of a dozen outdated battlemechs or a smattering of tanks guarding their non-industrial worlds, though important worlds often get an entire platoon of battlemechs! The Clans are infamous for their defensive garrisons using third-rate equipment (it's still better than Inner Sphere gear, though). In Operation Bulldog, a combined offensive against Clan Smoke Jaguar as vengeance for their Orbital Bombardment against a civilian city. The IS task force quickly crushes the Smoke Jaguar's homeworld defenders, which are notoriously poorly equipped even among the other Clans. | |
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The Commonwealth's military in Andromeda was divided into the Home and High Guard, with members having to have spent several years in the Home Guard before being eligible to join the High Guard. | |
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In Embers in the Dusk, the planets of the Imperial Trust have a sizable PDF numbering at least a few percent of the population, along with just about every capable person serving in the militia. On Avernus, in particular, the militia are at a level that would make the Old Imperium's Stormtroopers envious, while the PDF, as of August 2020, are all equipped with Power Armour. | |
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Battlestar Galactica: According to Word of God, Lee Adama was a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves. | |
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In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, the Royal Guard is seen levying Ponyville civilians in preparation for a large-scale search of the Everfree Forest for changelings. | |
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The Longest Day: During D-Day, the 29th Infantry Division's was tasked with clearing strong points at Omaha Beach and they were in the first wave of Allied troops during Operation Overlord. Their prominent role in the battle is shown throughout the film. The division is a part of the Florida, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia Army National Guards. | |
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Home Guard | |
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Most of the resistance from Enemy Front are civilian conscripts and volunteers, due to the Allies suffering too much casualties during the war. Their in-game description even gives them the name "Home Army Guard". | |
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Home Guard | |
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In the China Beach fanfic "Past to Present," Colleen McMurphy re-enlists in the Army Reserve, is promoted to Major and later Colonel. She also becomes the commander of the 3098 *M*A*S*H during The Gulf War. | |
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Clash of the Titans: The Dwindling Party of soldiers assigned to help Perseus in his mission are from an Honor Guard, distinguished soldiers too old to fight on the front lines or young inexperienced soldiers who look good in formation. They are all he gets because the rest of the Argosian army had recently been wiped out after picking a fight with Zeus and Hades. | |
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In the Star Carrier series the Sol System is patrolled by the High Guard, a sub-fleet of the Confederation Navy that acts mostly as an early warning system for Earth and was originally set up to guard against Colony Drops. Their ships are rather outdated and prove no match for the Turusch. | |
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Carry On, Sergeant sort of revolves around this. The Home Guard in this movie is the National Service and the men called up have no choice but to draft in. | |
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Defense Armies in Stellaris, to the point that they are are raised and maintained from Enforcer (policemen) and Soldier jobs for no additional costs. | |
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The planet of Perlia got a "speedbump's speedbump" in the form of the Planetary Defence Volunteers, established by Ciaphas Cain in the sixth novel of the series. The author also used it as a chance to make an extended Shout-Out to Dad's Army. | |
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Deconstructed in Cold Mountain where the Home Guard led by Captain Teague are the antagonists. Formed to defend the people of Cold Mountain while their menfolk are away fighting the war, Teague turns them into a marauding band of villains, hunting and killing deserters and anyone suspected of harboring them, so Teague can confiscate their properties for his own. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII has the aptly named "Homeguard Regiment" of the Guardian Corps. They are tasked with defending the capital city Eden and are the toughest, most well-trained forces the GC has on hand. | |
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World in Conflict pits the Red Army against various units of the U.S. National Guard, mainly those from Oregon and Washington. | |
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Quincy, M.E.: Dr. Quincy's a Captain in the Naval Reserve. | |
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