GHOST53 just left Wake Island. Just yesterday we had two Gulfstreams that left Wake at the same time, in opposite directions.
Spoopy factor is because there is nothing really ON Wake island. Backup runway with minimal staff. No assigned units. It is in the middle of fucking nowhere, halfway between Hawaii and Japan.
Some clarification on National Guard units.
It is misinformation to simply say "National Guard are controlled by the Governor." Yes and No. On the face of it, NG is under the State Gov. and "Reserves" are under the Fed Gov.
However…. modern military is comprised of many so-called "Tasking Units." So an active duty deployment force may include a Tasking Unit, which is comprised of support forces from other units.
In practice, it means that a NG medical unit, for example, could be tasked to an Active Duty deployment. This can happen for extended periods, and without warning. So individual squads or even individual people within a NG structure, might find themselves "Tasked", and then Boom they ship out on a C-130 to somewhere. You could be a NG maintenance tech, and part of a Taskinig Unit assigned to Andrews AFB for example. Andrews sends a deployment to Dubai, and poof just your maintenance unit is on its way to Dubai as support.
Another way this happens is as follows: Active Duty units get deployed somewhere, and are now in need of temporary troops to back-fill their home base. So back-fill units could be sent from one state to another state, uner an Active Duty call up situation. As far as I know the Pentagon supercedes the state authority in these situations.
Remember that movie the Omen, where the mother was trying to kill baby Damian?
Do a backflip, faggot