CHAPTER 21
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
21.01 Composition of national guard.
21.015 Department duties.
21.025 State defense force authorized.
21.03 Distribution of arms.
21.05 Term of enlistment; requirements.
21.06 Exemptions from certain county duties.
21.07 Decorations and awards.
21.09 Training; special schools; pay and allowances.
21.11 Call to active service.
21.12 Exemption from civil authority.
21.13 Defense of members of guard; payment of judgments.
21.15 Penalty for retention of military property.
21.155 Nondelivery of arms; resisting officer.
21.16 Penalty for unauthorized wearing of uniforms.
21.17 Encroachment on military areas and interference with military personnel.
21.18 Military staff of governor.
21.19 Adjutant general; powers and duties.
21.20 Civil service status.
21.21 Printing report of convention of officers.
21.25 Badger Challenge program.
21.26 Youth Challenge program.
21.28 United States property and fiscal officer.
21.30 Chief surgeons; powers and duties.
21.32 Physical examinations.
21.35 Federal laws and regulations; no discrimination.
21.36 National guard rules and regulations.
21.37 The Wisconsin code of military justice.
21.38 Uniform of Wisconsin national guard.
21.42 Status, powers and property of units.
21.43 Commissions and rank.
21.47 Examinations for promotion or appointments.
21.49 Educational benefits.
21.50 Military property accountability.
21.51 Discharge of officers.
21.52 Authority to administer oaths.
21.54 Resignation of officer.
21.56 Lost and obsolete property.
21.57 Disposition of property on separation and death.
21.59 Issue of subsistence.
21.60 Discharge of enlistees.
21.612 Transfer of lands for military purposes.
21.616 Facilities for administration and training.
21.62 Rules for issuance of state property to bands.
21.63 Grounds for mustering out of units.
21.70 Counter-drug activities.
21.01
21.01
Composition of national guard. 21.01(1)
(1) The organized militia of this state shall be known as the "Wisconsin national guard" and shall consist of members appointed or enlisted therein in accordance with federal law or regulations governing or pertaining to the national guard.
21.01(2)
(2) The Wisconsin national guard shall be organized into army national guard and air national guard units, and "national guard" when used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, includes both the Wisconsin army national guard and the Wisconsin air national guard.
21.01 History
History: 1975 c. 189;
1983 a. 27.
21.015
21.015
Department duties. The department of military affairs shall:
21.015(2)
(2) Provide facilities for the national guard and any other support available from the appropriations under
s. 20.465.
21.015 History
History: 1983 a. 27.
21.025
21.025
State defense force authorized. 21.025(1)
(1)
Authority and name. The adjutant general may establish a plan for organizing a military force to be known as the Wisconsin state defense force. The adjutant general may organize the Wisconsin state defense force under the plan if all or part of the Wisconsin national guard is called into the service of the United States. It shall be distinct from the national guard, uniformed, and composed of officers, commissioned or assigned, and of enlisted personnel who volunteer for service. Membership in the Wisconsin state defense force may not include any person who is in the active military forces, including the reserve components. Persons in the retired reserve may serve in the Wisconsin state defense force.
21.025(2)
(2) Organization; rules and regulations. 21.025(2)(a)(a) The governor may prescribe rules and regulations not inconsistent with this section governing the enlistment, organization, administration, equipment, maintenance, training, and discipline of such forces, except that such rules and regulations, insofar as the governor deems practicable and desirable, shall conform to existing law governing and pertaining to the national guard and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and shall prohibit the acceptance of gifts, donations, gratuities, or anything of value by such forces or by any member of such forces from any person by reason of such membership.
21.025(2)(b)
(b) The governor may form an aviation unit of the state defense force and formulate the rules and regulations therefor and prescribe the duties thereof consistent with the functions of the state defense force.
21.025(2)(c)
(c) Officers and enlistees, while on active duty under orders of the governor, shall receive the base pay and allowances of the identical grade in the United States army.
21.025(2)(d)
(d) The adjutant general may organize a cadre force of not more than 12 personnel at each state-owned armory. Each cadre force shall establish recruitment lists of persons interested in becoming members of the state defense force, which may be used to recruit full units for the state defense force in case the Wisconsin national guard is mobilized for active federal duty.
21.025(3)
(3) Requisitions; armories; other buildings. For the use of such forces, the governor may requisition from the federal government such arms and equipment as may be available, and the governor may make available to the state defense force the facilities of state armories and their equipment and such other state premises and property as may be available and may, through the department of military affairs, rent or lease buildings or parts of buildings and grounds for armory purposes or continue in possession of such premises leased by the department of military affairs for the use of the national guard, paying rental therefor out of funds appropriated under
s. 20.465 (1) (a). All leases so made shall terminate upon dissolution of the Wisconsin state defense force regardless of the term provided therein unless the premises shall be needed for national guard purposes, in which case the lease may be assigned by the department of military affairs to the national guard organization intending to occupy the premises.
21.025(4)
(4) Use without this state. Such forces shall not be required to serve outside the boundaries of this state except:
