Gates: Review military’s role in homeland defense
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday ordered his top department leaders to conduct a broad review to determine whether the military, National Guard and Reserve can adequately deal with domestic disasters and whether they have the training and equipment to defend the homeland.
The 41-page memo signaled an acknowledgment that the military must better recognize the critical role of the National Guard and Reserves in homeland defense, but stopped short of requiring many specific policy changes.
His memo comes in the wake of a stinging 400-page independent commission report that concluded the military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and that National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job.
That report, released early this year by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves, said the Pentagon must use the nation’s citizen soldiers to create an operational force that would be fully trained, equipped and ready to defend the nation, respond to crises and supplement the active duty troops in combat.
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Gates: Review military’s role in homeland defense
It’s coming… Wait for it… Wait for it… What do you call a Civilian National Security Force?, there it is, it was posted here back on Nov. 2, 2008. Obama has plans that are a bit different from those of Sec. Gates I believe. Maybe *The One* will equip the Schutzstaffel, uh, wait, I didn’t mean SS, uh, I meant Civilian National Security Force, equip them to take over Homeland Defense.
OK, right here is where I am going to piss off the *Bush Bots* again I think, they won’t like what I am about to say, they truly hate anyone that will tell the truth about the guy they are in love with, the Moron in Chief himself, George W. Bush.
National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job.
OK, part of that is a lie and part is truth. Most National Guard units DO have the training, many have had 2 and 3 tours in Iraq, and if that isn’t sufficient training, then I have no idea what is. So, that part of the above quoted line is nothing more than a LIE. I don’t know if that lie is perpetuated by the Bush DoD or the MSM, but in any case, it IS a LIE regarding training of National Guard units!
Lets discuss equipment, and here is where the *Bush Bots* are going to get their little panties in a wad. I personally know of National Guard troops that went to Baghdad as MECHANIZED troops, they were designated XXX BCT (MECH), they took their Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles to Iraq WITH THEM! They did not go to Iraq to be equipped BY the Army, they took their rifles, combat gear, MECH vehicles and all, WITH THEM!
When they came back from Iraq, the last thing they did was clean and prepare their Abrams and Bradley’s for the trip back home. But those armored vehicles never made it home, they are still in Iraq, being used by other units. This particular BCT, Brigade Combat Team, came back to be re-designated a Light Infantry Brigade. Their equipment was taken away from them by a U.S. DoD that went into Iraq ill prepared, on the orders of a President that had NO idea as to what he was doing or how to get it done.
I can’t speak for ALL National Guard Units, but I know for a certain FACT that the above is the gospel truth regarding at least 1 entire state and their Guard Units.
The Guard troops ARE trained, they ARE ready, they ARE prepared, but they are ill equipped to do anything more than be Light Infantry, basically, foot soldiers, and I have no idea how many other states are now in the same situation, their Guard Units decimated due to the poor planning and preparation of the Moron in Chief as he sent our troops into harms way in a battle that was NOT necessary!
And here’s one other thing to consider, IF the Guard can’t provide Homeland Security in the event of a massive terrorist attack, then the already stretched thin REGULAR military would be forced to take up arms on U.S. soil.
Does the term Posse Comitatus ring any bells with you??
Is this just the beginning?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/56233.html
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s 3 million campaign volunteers got re-enlistment notices this week.
Campaign manager David Plouffe, in a mass e-mail sent Wednesday to former workers, asked how much time they can spare for four missions integral to Obama’s effort to transform his victory into a broader political movement.
The one thing we learn from history is that it repeats itself.
In my opinion, Fred, that’s Obama’s point anyway; why else would he want a “civilian” force “every bit as well equipped” as the military? More troops, more tanks, more guns, more ships (for Christ’s sake, we’re a pittant 280-ship NAVY now, where ONCE we were slightly over 500 ships!) mean that those appropriations would have had to be APPROVED by Congress — and guess who fought againts those points?
BZ
I think what may be needed is a bit of reading between the lines. I reported about this almost immediately as I still lived near where he made this plan public, and I had access to a live feed. Gunny Bob was right on my heels, and yes. Fred picked right up on it as well.
Here’s the thing though. He (Obama et al) are defining a new mission, and will therefore need a new force to implement said mission. A force that will not be subject to Posse Comitatus restrictions. A personal force that, as noted above, will be funded etc. as well as the military. Pardon me while I put on that tin foil hat that I sometimes need to wear in order to think out of the box… There, a bit more over that direction… Good, better reception with that part angled a bit more left…
The National Guard, not being subject to the Posse Comitatus Act, and filled with citizen soldiers would need to be neutered as a fighting force for the Obamanites to be able to succeed. How to do this? Look up at what Fred posted. That’s one way that this could be accomplished.
Along with similar methodologies the thinking public must be muzzled. Hence things such as free speech being caste as dangerous. So the Internet will be subjected to monitoring and content controls. There will be political posturing about things like this. Such as using terms such as “Law abiding citizens” regarding gun control blog posting and so on.
They will just change the law so that Fred, myself, and so many others will no longer be “Law abiding citizens.” Plus, with the advent of the Lautenberg Acts ex post facto law, and less than felony violations can, and will be used as cover to justify the taking of rights from people and already have precedent to do so.
Think about it; as reported elsewhere, there are places that are taking Second Amendment Rights from people based upon unpaid traffic tickets, and they are basing it upon the Lautenberg Domestic violence statutes.
So then; take the teeth from citizen soldiers, muzzle free speech, disarm the resistance, empower a personal paramilitary force, and do it all under the guise of being the law, and constitutional.
How to take over a nation 101.
Removes the tin hat and waits for responses…
Just read the history of the rise of Adolf Hitler, the SA and then the SS and you’ll see ‘The Messiah’ has been doing some reading on his own.
IMO, the US missed by a whisker a real civil war in the late 60′s. It remains to be seen if we miss this on or not.
I don’t think that Gates’ comments about a Homeland Defense role for the military is connected to Obama’s Civilian NS BS. Instead, it is a realization that in the event of a mass casualty event or natural disaster, there is a severe shortage of manpower. There is a real difference separated by a fine line between Homeland Security (DHS) and Homeland Defense.
This was raised in 2005: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2005/d20050630homeland.pdf
That the Guard and Reserves aren’t equipped to do the job is less the question, than whether, given posse comitatus, active military can play a domestic role during an event. To some people, posse comitatus is anachronistic. This article discusses it (and was written before the attacks on Sept. 11th):
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/journal/articles/Trebilcock.htm
So Storm, would incident command be useless in your scenario?
@ Patrick Sperry – No, incident command would not be useless. Why do you ask and what’s on your mind? I actually believe that suspension, or at worst reinterpretation, of posse comitatus is in order.