Hmm. What to make of this:
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.
“Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,†said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. “Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.â€Â
Thoughts?
(h/t JWebb, who asks, “How does Posse Comitatus apply, for instance?” To which I direct him to at least one JAG’s view. The nut:
The Posse Comitatus Act has traditionally been viewed as a major barrier to the use of U.S. military forces in planning for homeland defense.[1] In fact, many in uniform believe that the act precludes the use of U.S. military assets in domestic security operations in any but the most extraordinary situations. As is often the case, reality bears little resemblance to the myth for homeland defense planners. Through a gradual erosion of the act’s prohibitions over the past 20 years, posse comitatus today is more of a procedural formality than an actual impediment to the use of U.S. military forces in homeland defense.
Naturally, you are free to agree, disagree, or simply vote “present”…)
update: Let’s see, markets in crisis, election season, bitter partisan and social divide…might all that lead to increased chatter?
yet more hints that Bushitler will not be leaving office come January!
Preparing for the eruption of the culture war de facto, natch.
Don’t taze me E-4!!
Yep. 4 more years!
This dragged up from the bottom of my brain one of the before-they-were-memes telephone-game talking points of my youth (the confused tertiary source of the catchy variant, if I remember right, was Jello Biafra): Reagan’s one-time use of the phrase “posse comitatus” meant he was a white supremacist…because that’s…all code-y and shit…y’know?
Anyway you’re denounced.
I denounce all things.
I. am. a. nighmare walking, psychopath talking, king of my jungle, just a gansta stalking…
Does this involve horsies? I like horsies. I’d join a posse if I could ride a roan. Of course I suck at riding and would probably cripple myself and be a burden to my family.
…
What were we talking about…?
Does this mean we get to kill communists? I’ve been waiting so long.
Yes, BJ. And we don’t even need to leave the country to do it.
YOU INFIDELS THINK IT IS FUNNY TO KILL PEOPLE? NOW YOU ARE NOT CONTENT TO KILL MY JIHADI BROTHERS, AND TURN YOU WARMONGERING MILITARY LOOSE ON YOUR OWN PEOPLE? YOU INVADE OUR HOLY LANDS AND OFFER SUPPORT TO THE ZIONISTS IN ORDER TO SATISFY YOUR BLOODLUST AND STILL MANAGE TO EARN THE SUPPORT OF SELF-LOATHING MINORITIES LIKE SENOR BJ. WHILE WE CAVORT ABOUT WITH A HAREM OF VIRGINS DRINKING THE FINEST WINES, AND EATING THE MOST SUCCULENT FIGS, YOU CAPITALIST RUNNING DOGS WILL BURN IN HELL.
Another Obama supporter heard from at #10.
Hey, PBUH!
I tattooed a picture of Muhammad in my chest wearing a tutu and ballet slippers with a hockey stick crammed up his ass.
JIHAD THIS!!!
OH YOU MAY MOCK ME ROBERT CRAWFORD AKA INFIDEL BUT WHEN ALLAH PASSES ON JUDGEMENT ON YOU THE FLAMES OF HELL WILL HAVE TO BE STOKED.
IF YOU ONLY KNEW MOHAMMED YOU WOULD KNOW THAT ALLAH’S WILL WILL BE DONE WHEN YOU SPEND YOUR ETERNITY IN A DARK WARM PLACE SURROUNDED BY THE FLAMES OF HADES. YOU AND YOUR INFIDEL WAYS WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND YOU WILL BEG FOR FORGIVENESS WHEN YOUR TIME IS AT HAND.
Also, I’m thinking that PBUH is inauthentic, what with the “succulent pigs’ and “finest wines.” Doesn’t add up, I don’t think. Suspicious, I am!
Wow, when did I start writing like Yoda?
Oh figs that’s a very different thing but there’s still the whole wine thing that’s very disturbing. I’m thinking PBUH needs to walk around Qom flaying himself with those glass impregnated 5 stranded whips.
FOR THE ATONEMENT!!!
YOU WORSHIP INAUTHENTIC GODS LIKE YODA WHEN ALLAH OFFERS THE ONLY PATH TO ETERNAL LIGHT. I CANNOT EVEN BRING MYSELF TO TYPE THAT P*G WORD THAT BJ USED, BUT TO BE CLEAR, WE WILL DINE ON THE MOST SUCCULENT OF FIGS, NOT THOSE FILTHY UNCLEAN CREATURES KNOWN AS P*GS. AS FOR THE WINE, WOULDN’T YOU?
pfft…your god is scared of Me nah nah nah
INFIDEL BJ SPEAKS OF THE CAT-O’9 TAILS FROM EXPERIENCE
I guess uncial letters are haram.
RIGHT TURN CLYDE AKA INFIDEL MY ALLAH FEARS NOBODY. THE WRATH OF THE ANOINTED ONE WILL ENGULF YOU FOR SPEAKING SUCH BLASPHEMY.
All caplocks comes from a bad Hadith, I think. That’s the same one that felt the need to discuss how juggling Pekineses was haram and punishable by death by fart. Or was it fart to death? Translations, they teh suxor.
Haram’ph.
OH YOU INFIDELS MOCK AND SCORN THAT WHICH YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND BUT YOUR DAY OF JUDGEMENT WILL COME AND ME AND NISHI WILL STAND TO THE SIDE AND LAUGH WHEN YOUR FIREY VERDICT IS HANDED DOWN.
Ha, JD! BUSTED!
Do you think allah would be cool to drink a beer with? I choose my gods like I choose my religion…
BTW, who would win a leg wrestling match between allah and BAAL?
Shit.
BTW, I see no evidence of this activation being anything other than a farce. A little creative conspiracy. If you check out army times or the brigades actual webpage there doesn’t seem to be any mention of this.
OOps, I stand corrected.
But in reading the article it seems this is not a permanent deployment as the same group will be redeployed overseas in 2010.
I suppose with all the hysteria created by Katrina this was exactly what you should expect since the Feds were racist and didn’t want to save any black people. Next time it happens they will have soldiers locked and ready to “restore order”.
Be careful what you ask for I suppose.
RoA,
It will be a rotating duty assignment. After 3ID/3BCT is done, anotehr BCT will be assigned.
Greenwald is spining up on this one as well, and despite his “constitutional law ans civil rights” background, he accepts the words and terms from the Army Times (not itself a great source of credibility) and thier casual and careless usage. As such controversy is created where none would have existed if Army Times and Greenwald were knowledgable commenters. Army Time exists to create dissention in the Services and Greenwald’s just happy to help.
Per the Posse Comitatus question, Greenwald says: “For more than 100 years — since the end of the Civil War — deployment of the U.S. military inside the U.S. has been prohibited under The Posse Comitatus …†The inference that the “deployment†of 3BCT/3ID in support of Homeland Defense, presented as a fact in Army Times and accepted with out question as such by Greenwald, is an operational deployment. It’s not. It’s a preparatory assignment for a mission that they could have been called for through any other means. No one’s going to be seeing 3ID “Borken TV Set” patches martching or patrolling through their burgs. Not unless there’s a disaster and they it’s unlikely that the help they offer will be refused, just becasue it comes from a face under a Kevlar helmet.
Also, note that Greenwald does not speak in the future tense. This “deployment†is not something that could occur and under specific circumstances, for him the very assignment to standby and be ready, means it has occurred as such: “…the bright line ban on using the U.S. military as a standing law enforcement force inside the U.S. has been more or less honored — until now.â€Â
This may seem like petty parsing but after all, Mr. Greenwald has litigated based upon his expertise on the Constitution and federal law. Perhaps he should spend the time studying US national security policy and the nuances of Homeland Defense and contingency mission assignments.
Gleenwald is wrong? SHOCKA
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Gleenwald is wrong? SHOCKA”
Howze about the sockpuppets?
@31
Thanks, I did time in the USN and I KNOW that the military is one of the few organizations in this country that try very hard to live by the laws they are guided by. I didn’t like the military when I was in it, but over the years and recollecting I think that was just youthful “rebellion”. But I was very proud of my country and the service during the times that we were called to help out after disasters and we were definitely appreciated when it happened. Of course cracker jacks arent quite as threatening as flack jackets and whatnot.. They see a squid and think Popeye, they see army guys and think John Wayne.
It’s good to have resources available for when bad things happen. I have one of those flashlights you can crank like for an hour and have it shine for maybe a couple minutes. Me and my flashlight stand ready to answer the call. Also SarahW has canned soup.
Ghost in the machine:
here
see a squid and think Popeye, they see army guys and think John Wayne.
??
So they see me and expect to be punched in teh face and they see you and expect you to lift a house off it’s foundations?
“So they see me and expect to be punched in teh face and they see you and expect you to lift a house off it’s foundations?”
Well most squids are out of shape as well – so lifting a house off its foundations is out of the question.. I think they just expected us to drink alot of alcohol and hit on their women. So when we actually help, its a big surprise.
:-)
But seriously, I helped out after Hurricane Hugo hit the American Virgin Islands as a CAT5 (at least I think it was a CAT 5). It was something I will never forget. It was like a nuclear bomb of water went off on the place. That’s the best analogy I can come up with .
Not a lot of frivolity ever when you’re a fixed-income strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in Frankfurt I bet. It sounds awfully grim anyways. Just glad I never went down that path is all. Thought I’d share.
There’s a neighbor of mine out here in way-rural Arizona who is signing up voters and who HATES America and who used to live in Pakistan.
After that, she gestated on the Navajo Reservation for a few years. Now she’s way out here talking smack about my country.
Check out the checklist:
She’s on welfare and doesn’t work for a living, check.
She’s from Pakistan and spent many years in Muslim India, check.
She used to shack up with a Black Panther in NJ, check.
She’s Muslim and hates America, check.
She used to work for Jerry Torricelli’s corrupt campaign, check.
And now she’s registering voters in remote America, check.
I don’t want to be paranoid, but this one’s got the smell of ACORN all over her.
Should I call the FBI, guys? Seriously.
The Moose Hunter will be on the Hugh Hewitt show @3:00 pst listen here:
http://krla870.townhall.com/
Thank NOLA, Naggin and Blanco…when the Federal Government got dragged into Katrina, remember George Bush hates Black people, the natural response was for the Feds to get involved and only DOD has the resources to respond.
I do not understand something. All 8 of teh Gren Gleenwalds and the rest of the Left got a case of the vapors when President Bush did not deploy the National Guard in New Orleans prior to the hurricane hitting. Now, it is wrong for them to consider domestic use of the military in a time of crisis? Is there even one principle that they actually hold, outside of BDS?
Steveaz, heck yeah.
Is there even one principle that they actually hold, outside of BDS?
It’s probably something like “Desperate Houswives is real“
link
Well, I’m sure the Branch Davidians are happy to hear about that!
On the original subject — this probably worries me less than it should. But, having watched the growth of SWAT teams and TAC squads and “prosecutorial discretion” over the last few years, frankly I trust Maj (P) John and SGT Ted more than I do any of the locales. Not just insofar as ability to do the job, but as regards the likelihood of their being willing to approximate respect for civil liberties in the process.
For sure, a veteran of Baghdad or Bagram isn’t likely to freak when I walk by with my snake-charmer .22 — be wary and ask what’s going on, maybe, but not shriek like a girl and call out the Tactical Unit. Right now, if you want to get away with anything from 35 in a 30 zone to bombing the local IRS office, the way to start is by dressing up an AR15 with a black-plastic stock and a sling, and have one of your minions stroll by the entrance of the local shopping mall carrying it.
Regards,
Ric
@40
Sure, why not? She would do worse to you if she had the opportunity.
If that doesn’t bring the tac team, the mobile command center, and whatever RV they happen to have on hand, I don’t know what would.
Jim in KC – What browser did you get for your Instinct?
As long as he doesn’t shoot first, anyway. We had a guy shoot two people dead on the porch of a house a half a block away from us about 10:00 on a Friday a month ago. He literally did stroll by our house with his AK in hand, 15 feet away from my window.
No tac team; the cops couldn’t figure out who he shot, and by the time they got their shit together he was long gone.
JD-you can use Opera Mini 3.x as long as you don’t need to type anything. But the latest firmware update that brought the browser up to 1.1 seems to work really well for most of what I’ve tried with it. I’m not sure if they’ve pushed that update yet, you might have to go into the settings and force it to check for it.
As others have noted, Greenwald can go directly to the incompetent and hysterical Nagin, Blanco, and MSM. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. They all demanded federal troops and they got them in an ad hoc fashion after a few days. Now there will be a brigade available at any given time that can be quickly tapped if needed. A BCT is a formidable force, but it’s not like it can take over a large part of the country or even an entire state. Call me when they start tasking multiple divisions to this duty. Besides, this will be a non-issue once the chosen one is elected…bet on it.
Anyone have a link to Greenwald’s frothing? I can’t seem to find it and I have a question.
Wells, I guess they need someone to hand once the riots start.
I guess I’m a bit fuzzy on some historical things, but as I recall, the last time something like this happened it was a Repubican president, Eisenhower, preventing a Democratic governor from barring black students from entering a high school.
Maybe they’re worried about all the mau-mau left’s threats of “violence in the streets” if O! loses…
And as far as being worried about 3ID/3BCT being deployed in the CONUS? I agree with hf; I feel better knowing they’re around to help in case of, ahem, emergency…
In the words of Warren Zevon:
“Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money…‘Cuz the Shit Has Hit the Fan…”
But you can keep the lawyers (as my wife says, “Oh no he di’int…)
Not relevant.
BRD: It’s here.
>>Maybe they’re worried about all the mau-mau left’s threats of “violence in the streets†if O! loses…
Or the markets finally tank. Whichever.
Oh? The FBI was storing BFVs and CEVs at Fort Hood because their garage was full? Or that whoever had the hand receipt for those puppies would let FBI dweebs drive them?
I have just read one of the longest (to quote my grandmother) weewee waving contests I have ever seen only she didn’t call it a weewee.
Kendall
What happened to the case-challenged apologist for the child molesting Moe Hammed? Is he banned? I think Jeff should demonstrate some of his takedowns on that jerk.
If we don’t stop this now, he’ll start using a non-proportional font.
MARKD AKA INFIDEL WHY MUST YOU CAPITALIST RUNNING DOG ZIONISTS FLAUNT YOUR ARROGANCE AND BLOODLUST?
“THE WRATH OF THE ANOINTED ONE WILL ENGULF YOU FOR SPEAKING SUCH BLASPHEMY.”
Yeah, well, until then – could someone please pass the bacon?
Thanks.
“FLAUNT YOUR ARROGANCE AND BLOODLUST”
Man you be jivin’ like dem jackasses.
BACON ?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? BACON?! THE STREETS WILL FLOW WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO MOCK ALLAH AND HIS WORDS AND THOSE THAT EAT THE FILTHY MEAT OF THE DISGUSTING PIG ANIMALS. YOU WARMONGERS ARE DISGUSTING VERMIN INFIDELS AND TAWIL AND MAHMOUD WILL SEND YOU TO YOUR MAKER SOMEDAY.
MUST I BANG MY SCIMTAR AGAINST MY FOREHEAD UNTIL I BLEED TO PROVE HOW PASSIONATE I AM ABOUT MY CAUSE? MAYBE IF I LET OUT ONE OF THOSE ULULULULULULULULULULULULULULU YELLS YOU WOULD TAKE ME MORE SERIOUSLY.
“Comment by Kendall Sue on 9/30 @ 6:51 pm #
I have just read one of the longest (to quote my grandmother) weewee waving contests I have ever seen only she didn’t call it a weewee.
Kendall”
The only one in this neighborhood waving his miniscule weewee is thor.
Preferably on YouTube.
“MUST I BANG MY SCIMTAR”
Yo this is a family website take your Jihadi porn elsewhere.
I say use your hammer.
“BACON ?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? BACON?! THE STREETS WILL FLOW WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE WHO MOCK ALLAH AND HIS WORDS AND THOSE THAT EAT THE FILTHY MEAT OF THE DISGUSTING PIG ANIMALS.
But…but…al-‘UzzÄ said it was okay.
Here – she’s even made for you a plate of her famous apricot honey ham, with a bowl full of dates on the side. Try some – you know that 2.1 billion children of the Book can’t be wrong.
And yes, you must.
“MAYBE IF I LET OUT ONE OF THOSE ULULULULULULULULULULULULULULU YELLS YOU WOULD TAKE ME MORE SERIOUSLY.”
I’m pretty sure only the women do that, and that only the men bang their scimitars.
Which leads me to ask – are we speaking with a Muslim jihadi trans-sexual? ‘Cause, like, I’m all for diversity, but I’m sure thats one (other) thing that Allah wouldn’t approve of.
Greenwald truly doesn’t know what the fuck he is talking about here.
Posse Comitatus prohibits only the domestic use of the Army and Air Force, serving in a Title 10 capacity, in a direct, active or pervasive law enforcement role, unless otherwise authorized by Congress.
Let’s break that down.
Title 10 military personnel – that is active duty federal military personnel (regulars); federal reservists serving on active duty; *or* national guard personnel (ordinarily governed under Title 32, USC) serving in a federalized status.
Law enforcement role – that means serving as regulators, conducting law enforcement missions, which would include things like roadblocks around a disaster area, roving patrols to stop looting, and so forth.
Direct, active or pervasive role – Title 10 military personnel cannot man the roadblock. They cannot chase the crooks. They cannot command a civilian law enforcement investigation or provide 90% of the staffing (pervading it).
Indirect, passive and administrative law enforcement roles are permitted. That means a Marine rifle instructor can teach the Denver PD marksmanship. Some combat engineers can assist the Border Patrol in searching trucks coming across the border – they can’t do the stop but they can unload the truck and unpack the cargo for Border Patrol inspection.
Non-law enforcement roles are unrestricted by Posse Comitatus. That means that Title 10 personnel can conduct unlimited humanitarian relief, they can decontaminate vehicles and personnel in the wake of a WMD attack, they can provide lift capacity for evacuations, whatever non-law enforcement activities are needed.
At the same time some cooperation is directed by Congress. For instance, Air Force reconaissance assets have been directed to share drug interdiction information obtained during the course of training or normal operational use. The military has been directed to provide assistance to law enforcement when requested.
At the same time the Marines and Navy are not governed by the PCA, though statutory and regulatory analogues function in a similar manner.
Now, for the twist. The Governor and chief law enforcement officer of a state – maybe the governor, maybe the attorney general or secretary of state – can order National Guard (Title 32) personnel to perform a direct law enforcement mission, like a counterdrug operation targeting civilians. When they do so in coordination with federal efforts, it may be possible for them to seek and obtain reimbursement through DOD, out of Title 10 funds, if it supports federal efforts in the area. Pretty shady, eh? But legal per the letter of the law. Anyhoo…
NorthCom’s two primary missions, from what I’ve seen, are to respond to direct military threats (e.g. large group of Tangos with weapons that Andy and Opie can’t deal with) and to respond to disasters, like hurricanes and WMD attacks. They’d probably have to kill off half of Washington’s law enforcement bureaucracy to get directly involved in law enforcement, and they they’d have to do it over the skittish dead bodies of the DOD Office of General Counsel. The active duty forces may be tough but they aren’t tough enough to prevail against the 18th Chairborne Corps, and they know it.
Bottom line – is creeping military influence on law enforcement a problem? Yep, probably. Is Glenn’s hysterical overreaction here totally off-point and inaccurate? Oh yeah, that too.
Did we hear the Gleen(s) emoting when the USMC was fighting SoCal wildfires? I didn’t think so.
A lot of what is and is not “law enforcement” comes down the the definition of the term “US Person.”
Title 10 personnel cannot search, detain, or arrest US Persons unless they violate direct military jurisdiction (like breaking into a military installation).
US Person is a legal term of art and can include corporations and associations as well as individuals and aliens of various status as well as citizens.
DB Norton: “Meet John Doe” Hello Georgy Soros
Black Shirts in “Meet John Doe”
Change We Can Believe In: “Meet Baracky O!”
FTFY.
John Doe is on NBC
Or doing 35 in a 25 zone on an Army post, which was my second-to-last (so far) speeding ticket. If “detain” includes “pull over and write out a ticket.”
You can be damn sure I don’t speed on military bases anymore. Points or no points (actually, no points that time), I’m positive that ticket is on my permanent record somewhere in the bowels of the E ring.
This whole subject amuses me, in a black sort of way.
The Founders had a horror of “standing armies”. They even specified, in the Constitution itself, that armies could only be funded for two years. (That provision has been oh-so-cleverly evaded in order to please Curtis LeMay. People who think the “Department of Defense” is a good thing have no business bitching about “living Constitutions”.) But what was it about standing armies the Founders didn’t like?
Adventurism? Oh, please. Beating up on the Indians, expanding the territory — the Founders were right behind adventurism. They were, it’s true, concerned about Praetorianism, about having the Army effectively appoint the Government, but they thought they had that pretty well covered by the election thing.
What else did they disapprove of? Quartering — forcing citizens to house and feed soldiers. That should give the clue: What the Founders didn’t like about standing armies was that they could be (and were, in their recent history) used to oppress the people. Enforcing the writ.
Being policemen, in other words. Peel-style civil police are exactly the “standing army” the Founders didn’t want. Since we discarded the system of citizen enforcement, with only the rump of the Marshall system and a few remaining skiptracers and bounty hunters remaining, we have come to near-universal employment of civil police. Compared to that, stationing an army within CONUS is nothing.
And it is, you know. The Founders used “army” as a generic term for armed forces on land, but it also had a more specific meaning which was primary: A specific body of such forces, organized as a (large) unit. The usage survived until the Civil War and a little afterward (“The Army of the Potomac”) but fell to desuetude, with the generic meaning surviving. A Brigade Combat Team is pretty nearly exactly what the Founders understood as the primary meaning of “army”.
Regards,
Ric
TRANSTESTICLE JIHADIS ?!?! INFIDEL BASTAGES YOUR PERFIDY KNOWS NO BOUNDS. APPARENTLY BEATING MY SCIMTAR UPSIDE MY HEAD WAS NOT SUFFICIENT TO SHOW YOU THE DEPTH OF MY PASSION. NOW I MUST BLOW MYSELF UP.
Umm… right you are, guv’nor. Semtex or C4, or would you prefer something more exotic? I’m almost sure there’s a couple pounds of octinol lying around here someplace…
Regards,
Ric
OH, YOU THINK YOU ARE A FUNNY ONE, HUH? ooooooooo. FUNNY GUY. HUMOR WILL NOT SAVE YOU WHEN ALLAH CONDEMNS YOU TO AN ETERNITY IN THE INFERNO WHILE I BASK IN A NIRVANA FULL OF VIRGIN TEENAGE BOYS AND PREPUBESCENT GIRLS BECAUSE THAT IS HOW MOHAMMED ROLLED AND IF YOU CAN’T BRING MOHAMMED TO THE UNDERAGED WOMEN, THEN YOU MUST BRING THE UNDERAGE WOMEN TO MOHAMMED, BUT I DIGRESS.
Oh, I dunno. I’m pretty sure Allah has a sense of humor. There’s no excuse for camels, otherwise.
Regards,
Ric
THEN MAY ALLAH SENTENSE YOU TO A LIFE OF BEING SODOMIZED BY A CAMEL AND READING NOTHING BUT DOWD AND HAVING TO DRINK SCHAEFERS LIGHT AND EAT WHITE CASTLE AND WATCH THE VIEW. PAIN INFIDEL PAIN.
“AND EAT WHITE CASTLE”
So much for Allah being merciful.
Chop chop, PBUH! Your virgins await!
What is a BCT going to do, anyway? Lock down Toledo?
Huh. Now that you mention it, White Castle sounds pretty good right now. Hmmmm…sliders with vinyl.
‘rope burns’.
Oh. You mean I might have to explain them to someone?
Derek
“we’re finally on our own….” that’d be a nice change.
“For sure, a veteran of Baghdad or Bagram isn’t likely to freak when I walk by with my snake-charmer .22  be wary and ask what’s going on, maybe, but not shriek like a girl and call out the Tactical Unit.”
Ric – indeed. Right now I can’t do anything but stifle a yawn upon seeing anything short of an RPG on someone’s shoulder.
I really, really, really do not ever want to go near Law Enforcement as a Soldier. 5 years as an Assistant State’s Attorney was enough of that. I was probably one of the unhappiest people deployed to New Orleans in ’05. I’d have rather been back in Parwan having the HiG shoot at me.
“…to respond to direct military threats (e.g. large group of Tangos with weapons that Andy and Opie can’t deal with)…”
I’m thinking back on persons and equipment I’ve witnessed any two random outdoor range visits I’ve made in the last year, plus what I know is in my basement and who will show up here to be equipped, and have to say that the tangos will have to be on tracks or have CAS assets we haven’t seen employed up to now in order for it to be necessary for the U.S. Army to be involved.
This assessment includes known capabilities of local law enforcement.
As far as general civil unrest goes – like, in a time of financial/ political upheaval or natural disaster – I’d rather be here in Utah than any other state in the Union. Oh, we’ve got concentrations of Dems in Ogden and SLC that will probably try to go out and burn down their own neighborhoods if they feel the teat being yanked away, but the average Utahn is a pretty law abiding and community minded breed of cat.
The teachers unions are working hard to change that, though. No telling what the future will bring.
M R Ducks.
Oh – here’s a preparedness tip for you: buy yourself sideband FM walkietalkies at any sporting goods or camping store. I prefer Motorola brand. Buy batteries sufficient to have two sets per unit (even if they come with battery packs and chargers). Sit down and have a teaching session where everybody learns to operate the units. Write down family, neighborhood, and community frequencies on a laminated card and tape one to the back of each unit. You can talk to your CERT or Red Cross locals to find out what their communication plans are. Your family should already have picked local rally points and identified relatives or persons to be contacted as out-of-area contacts, all for “in the event of” situations. And agreed on duress and confirmation codes.
Put one radio in each family member’s GoBag and have a couple of spares around if you can afford them.
“I’m pretty sure only the women do that, and that only the men bang their scimitars.”
– Maybe if Allah’s chosen ones would spend their time banging their women instead of their scimitars, we could all get more sleep.
– So whats the deal. Allah got short changed on a BLT on pita about 1500 years ago or what?
Terry Hatcher is still the prettiest and sexiest actress in Desperate Housewives”;”
Teri Hatcher is the sexiest cast of Desperate Housewives, i really like this girl”;