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by lucyjojo 143 days ago
i mean...

    militia
    noun
    
    1. a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency
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"civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army"

I don't know if you're from the US, but here, militia applies solely to civilian groups and not government ones.