Martial Law: Obama Confiscates National Guard Helicopters From All 50 States

Examiner.com ^ | April 14, 2014 | Dave Gibson

[ansel12]

The National Guard is intended to do a lot of our war fighting, don’t let the Vietnam war when Reserve losses approached 6,000 and Guard losses close to a 100 mislead you into thinking that was normal, in WWII for instance you would be amazed at all the National Guard divisions.

[Psalm 144]

Alter or abolish it. We’ve drifted under globalists for an entire generation now, all to the detriment of America and Americans outside the Beltway.

[ansel12]

I call BS on your claim.

[Paladin2]

From listening to the recruitment ads, it's makes them sound like a Civil Defense Operation.

The NG should be on the Southern Border with effective RoE's.

[Cyber Liberty]

I’m a little surprised to hear the National Guard has Apaches too.

[USNBandit]

What they are giving away are MRAPs, a vehicle the military bought just for doing convoy duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. As we draw down those forces the need for those vehicles declines and the government wants to excess them.

Those vehicle aren't being taken away from troops that need them or areas that need them.

[ansel12]

The National Guard does the same job for about 1/3 the cost.

They do? We have Airborne units in the Guard, but which one can replace the 82nd Airborne Division with a days, or a years notice?

[huldah1776]

Add your name to the pledge to impeach. Of course, they’ll come for us first. :)

http://www.pledgetoimpeach.com/

[ansel12]

The NG should be on the Southern Border with effective RoE's.

Then they would still be on active duty, and away from their homes and jobs and families, which is fine with me, but many on this thread don't like that idea.

[cripplecreek]

They fly A-10 Thunderbolts and now KC-135 Stratotankers out Of Selfridge ANG base near Detroit.

http://www.voicenews.com/articles/2014/04/18/life/doc53517a415188d437152345.txt

[ansel12]

In other words, no tanks.

[USNBandit]

We are pulling armor out of Germany. Tanks aren’t going to civilian police

[ansel12]

I obviously know that.

[huldah1776]

I’ve seen a tank or two in the Pennsy National Guard convoys when going to training. Old, old memories so I thought I would search first...posted a month ago...

http://www.military.com/video/combat-vehicles/combat-tanks/ohio-national-guard-m1a1-tank-training/3357828168001/

2008 http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/oregon_national_guard_to_get_a.html

other articles in the list too.

[Psalm 73]

Apache's are great attack helicopters, but maintenance night-mares.
Black Hawks are (relatively) easy to maintain (in comparison, anyways).

[Safetgiver]

And why is saving 12 billion dollars a bad thing? ...IF it was true, good. But this figure comes from the Obama regime so we know it is a lie, ipso facto.

[Hoodat]

The same reason the National Guard needs guns. It is to protect us from all enemies - Foreign, Domestic, and Kenyan.

[ansel12]

Those are transfers to military units, not small towns.

There is nothing new about National Guard armor units having armor.

[batterycommander]

Obozo wants to control all the effective weapons so that Putin and the Chicoms will have almost no trouble when they invade the US. Another Red Dawn is in the offing, methinks. Wolverines!! mates. Keep your powder dry and stock up on the essentials.

[Karl Spooner]

What 3,000 "tanks"?

An MRAP is considered a tank by some people. Street talk. The article did state "urban tank". Now did you hear urban associated with tank until this started? Lot's of luck saving that 12 billion too.