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Even the version of the trope where the Home Guard is little more than a [[Ragtag 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 [[Eagle Land|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
If they end up getting invaded and defeated, expect these guys to help form [[La Résistance]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': According to [[Word of God]], Lee Adama was a member of the Colonial Fleet Reserves.
* ''[[
* ''[[Horrible Histories (TV)|Horrible Histories]]'' has had several sketches about the British Home Guard.
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* The ''[[Warhammer 40 K]]'' equivalent is the PDF (Planetary Defense Forces). Their quality is variable: depending on the people settling there (usually long-serving Guard regiments), a planet's PDF could be those of a sedentary population too stupid to dodge the draft or a bunch of veterans from one of the Imperial Guard's more experienced and successful regiments. 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.
** The Cadian Interior Guard is one of the better-equipped PDF units-- one in ten soldiers, 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 [[Hell Gate]] [[Negative Space Wedgie]], it's probably for the best.
** 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
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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** Those brightly colored civilian airplanes they fly around in? During [[World War II]], they became something of a [[Lethal Joke Character]], when the CAP flew yellow-and-red Piper Cubs off the coasts looking for German U-Boats. There was little one of these planes could do to a U-Boat, given that they were unarmed (at first), but they could use their radios to [[Summon Bigger Fish|call for the]] [[Death From Above|Air Corps]], who would happily send a bomber to blow the interloper out of the water.
* Although it is very rare, the Boy Scouts themselves have been known to serve in this role in particularly trying times. The Polish Boy Scouts fought against the Germans during [[World War II]] as part of [[La Résistance]], often serving as scouts and messengers, and at one point late in the war even using ''tanks'' that they had captured from the Germans to help [[Big Damn Heroes|liberate a Concentration Camp]].
* Near the end of [[World War 2]] Nazi Germany had the [
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