 The SDG was connected to the Serbian Ministry of Interior, operated under JNA command, and reported directly to Milošević.It had between 1,000 and 1,500 men.Jović, at the time the Serbian Minister of the Interior, organized the youth wing of the SNO into the White Eagles, a paramilitary closely based on the World War II Chetnik movement, and called for "a Christian, Orthodox Serbia with no Muslims and no unbelievers."