Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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To be honest, one of my best friends has been in the National Guard for well over a decade, and I still don’t fully understand their role. But yes, at least some of them are full on military. He spent about a year deployed to Iraq back in 04 or 05, and his unit was mobilized to help put down the BLM protests over the summer.
That sounds reassuring. Cause like I said, it looks like these guys that are "Patriots" are in Iraq.

Gotta admit, getting more Nervous as more info comes out about the next week or so.
 
That sounds reassuring. Cause like I said, it looks like these guys that are "Patriots" are in Iraq.

Gotta admit, getting more Nervous as more info comes out about the next week or so.
Nothing is reassuring about this country right now. Specially after the news that those that attacked Capitol Hill may have had inside help. I truly fear for our democracy. A lot of the people that are armed seem like crazy fanatics that would be happy to have a bloodshed
 

Mitch looks after Mitch so there has to be a reason he's doing this.

Something to do with money me thinks

Maybe the calls for coming together arnt working so they know the only way to start off well with Biden admin is to impeach trump. He needs to boot Cruz and Hawley too.

Once Trump is out, I hope he absolutely destroys the GOP and reveals all their dirty sectets
 
"A person who is active duty is in the military full time. They work for the military full time, may live on a military base, and can be deployed at any time. Persons in the Reserve or National Guard are not full-time active duty military personnel, although they can be deployed at any time should the need arise."

The Guard is different from the Reserve in that their chain of command is through the State governor. They can be federalized, but they are the only "troops" that a governor can control. Frequently see them used during natural disasters. Reserves can't do that.

May seem subtle, but an important point for DOD to keep federal forces from being active on US soil. Any deployment in the US will be a Guard unit.

This was part of the issue for DOD brass in calling up the DC Guard to go to the Capitol. They are the only Guard under direct control of POTUS (because DC is not a state, they do not have a governor) so always federal. That would have been federal troops vs US citizens in a political fight.
(yes there was probably more going on - but that was part of it)

My local Guard unit are actually helping out in my health department right now with COVID vaccines. They are handling the "processing and paperwork" so all nurses are freed up to give the vaccine. Local additional man err human power is a big part of the job.
 
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