Tennessee Code Title 58. Military Affairs, Emergencies and Civil Defense § 58-1-515

(a) Military property of the state and of the United States shall be issued, safeguarded, maintained, accounted for, inventoried, inspected, surveyed and disposed of as provided in applicable laws and regulations issued thereunder and regulations issued pursuant to parts 1, 2 and 4-6 of this chapter.

(b) When state-owned military property is lost, damaged or destroyed through the negligence or fault of a member or employee of the national guard, the amount determined as the value of such property or the cost of repairing the same may be collected from any pay or allowance due or to become due to the member or employee of the national guard from the state, in addition to the remedies herein prescribed.

(c) An action may be maintained in the name of the state in any court having jurisdiction thereof by the attorney general and reporter, upon the request of the adjutant general, to recover, from a member or former member of the national guard found responsible for any state or federal military property lost, damaged or destroyed through negligence or fault, the amount determined as the value of such property or the cost of repairing the same.