3-23. Each adjutant general maintains a permanent headquarters for the state's National Guard forces, referred to as a joint force headquarters-state (JFHQ-State). The word joint, in this context, includes only the state's Army National Guard and Air National Guard. However, each state's National Guard varies in composition and size; there is no standard response organization among the 54 National Guard headquarters. Each state maintains contingency plans for different incident types and adjusts these plans as needed during operations, including adjustments for federalized National Guard units. In most incidents, the adjutant general establishes a JTF-State. In this context, the word state is used generically; each JFHQ-State and each JTF-State is named differently. A JTF-State, based on the adjutant general's contingency plans, usually has operational control of all Army and Air National Guard forces from all participating states. Partnerships are established and reinforced through joint and multiagency exercises well before incidents occur. The commander of the JTF-State task organizes units into task forces for missions. These state task forces sometimes work alongside federal task forces. (Figure 3-1 illustrates an example of a state National Guard response organization).