We do emergency management, search and rescue, augment the national guard during emergencies, provide support to the INANG (warfighter exercise for example), in process train and manage civilian volunteers and process deployments overseas. Among many other things. We are not warfighters as such we dont have tanks and armored vehicles and what not. We do qualify with weapons but dont carry them. I guess in a red dawn never gonna happen scenario we could be thrust into combat but thats not our mission. One real world mission for us is the tents that the dept. of health has (scene in the video). After hurricane Matthew passed by, Georgia asked the Indiana emergency operations center to form a team to erect and manage 6 hospital tents. The EOC asked us to be the ones to do it because we have the most experience doing it. I was one of the guys asked to do it. We were placed on stand by at camp atterbury. Thankfully the track the storm took didn't cause as much damage as expected and we were told to stand down. It may sound simple but those tents are huge and are capable of full hospital operations and a lot goes into running one. I was immensely proud of the men and women that were willing to set aside their paying jobs to help complete strangers in another state.