Yeah, I’ve been looking at volunteering in a state militia since at least 9/11. Too bad ours (and most others) are nothing but toothless paper tigers who will accept anyone with no experience or discipline at all, and look like a bunch of overgrown Barney Rubble Boy Scouts who get to play with military-surplus equipment for the first time in their lives. They make the state guard look like a regiment of hardened commandos. Eff that. I’d rather wear a tricorn hat and hoist a flintlock.
The VSM has been around for a couple hundred years. As a member of the Corps at Norwich, you are a member. Although, I think my commitment has run out. LOL.