Thread: The Progressive: The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.

“more than 379,000 military personnel in thousands of communities across the United States,” explained Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and America’s Security Affairs, in a letter to the National Governors Association, dated July 20 .' That is not tin foil. But I know what you mean and I considered it before I posted and decided to post it anyway.

I've actually talked to some active-duty about this (Army)...(sane GIs). Their opinion was that if troops are deployed on American soil, it will be chaos. Most GIs are people who signed up for a college education. About 80% are held there because they want free college. The rate of people who've gone AWOL for longer than 11 months has been put at 25-40K. That being said, the troops that aren't sane. The other 20%. The...

textbook conspiracy theory story. It is difficult to get my head around American Citizens actually proposing this -- but look at what the Bush admin. did. Had we heard about some of those things before they happened, we'd never have given it credence. Even when first hearing some of the stuff I think we went "nah, that's too far over the top" -- then we learned not only was it NOT too far over the top, it was SOP.

Los Angeles Long Beach Santa Ana Anaheim Riverside Irvine Those are the six cities encompassing Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties that show up in the list of the top 100 cities by population in the US. Those counties combined have 14,424,865 residents as of the 2000 census. Your model says 240,000 troops will be able to control almost FIFTEEN MILLION citizens. Chew on that for a moment... Active duty military PLUS reserves total...

home and send an equal number of regular troops to Afghanistan instead?? Then we'd have the National Guard doing what it's designed to do in the first place.

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There are ALREADY standing armed forces in the US. The OP is a bit hyperbolic. IHMO.

They are, in a sense at least, dealing with friends and neighbors. If you take a group of Army regulars from say, Texas (sorry Texans) and deploy them to keep order in Vermont or California they are a lot less likely to feel any real attachment to the locals they interact with. Furthermore the NG ultimately acts under orders from the Governor of their state, whereas the Army orders come from the Federal level. The implications of that are...