Posted on 09/28/2008 10:08:19 AM PDT by Oyarsa
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT
The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.
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.
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This is very bad in the wrong hands.
No! No! They’re here to take over NYC and put all Arab-Americans behind barbed-wire like in the Denzel Washington/Bruce Willis vehicle: “The Siege”!!!
To keep the Dim riots in check when McCain wins?
Don’t worry. The government is only here to help! Bush is saving your butt whether you like it or not! /s
Oh shut up...you obviously don’t have a clue.
Hey, someone need to perform crowd control when the run on banks kicks into high gear.
ping
Obviously.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092110/posts
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
This comes weeks after US Govt issued a call for all its agencies to write or update succcession plans to ensure operations.
And while agencies are really noting al Qaeda patterns of activity that predated other big attacks
Not that I am wearing a tin foil hat...
Some would say that comment is humor.
I won’t.
Oh no, to keep the Wall Street CEO rioters in check if no bail out plan by 1 October...
I don’t think this is a good precedent, but it is possible that it is because of the chance of a major terrorist attack around the time of the elections. There have been a number of significant arrests and also strange events (sudden shut downs of Pakistan and British airports, for example) that make me think that there is something brewing. I don’t think the terrorists have a very good chance of pulling it off, but I suspect these units are going to be on hand just in case.
Owned. That was hilarious.
We need the military at home to protect our borders and deport the hordes of illegal aliens/invaders who roam across the country and kill a shocking number of Americans as well as drain our resources.
A more accurate answer might be: This story began circulation about 2 weeks ago in a publication written, edited, and controlled by a 9/11 “Troofer” from California,who writes long, alarming stories every few days-backing them up by referring to other stories he has published in another online newspaper-which he controls.
As nearly as I can figure,one of his goals is to sell off a batch of surplus WWII-era Swiss carbines to militia wannabees,by convincing them the Day of Revolution is close at hand.
He lards his stories with just barely enough fact to make them look plausable; and, after 2 or 3 people begin circulating them (as in the example shown)a few folks start believing they are “getting the inside story”.
Be careful; the other side of the coin is that the same military can be used to confiscate guns, force citizens from their homes, etc.
It happened in New Orleans, it will happen again. Be careful what—and whom—you support.
I wasn’t aware that “armytimes.com” (the original source for the story I provided) was a “troofer” site.
There may well be other versions of the story, but what evidence do you have that the version I provided was written by a 9/11 “troofer”?
It’d take more than one measely division to do that.
But keep your powder dry just in case you-know-who gets elected.
When I was in the service in the late 1960’s, We in the First Army trained for riot control. We practiced formations in moving mobs around. If I recall we had seven levels of force available to use. We started off by moving mobs with fixed bayonets and could end up in firing live rounds. Deploying the military is not a new practice in American history. It’s been done often.
DEEEtroit
Based in Ft. Hood,TX.
But once a precedent is established, other divisions can be added.
You mean McCain? (http://www.gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm)
If you honestly thought him a friend of the 2nd amendment, you are grossly mistaken.
Neither McCain or Obama are trustworthy on that score.
That’s good news, but federal law trumps state law, and all it takes is one bad federal law, and one collectivist from either major party willing to enforce said law at gunpoint.
bookmark for later reading
Or when the financial system crashes, to stop runs on gas stations and banks.
We miss you, Dutch.
Yes, in deed we do.
"Troofers" don't sell their wares in every PX in the Army.
See my post #21.
We need a part of the military that is prepared to bring expertise to a situation such as a domestic nuclear explosion or an EMP attack, and we need a specially trained force that can fill in when a city’s or a region’s police force and firefighter force is dead or effectively destroyed and their equipment and infrastructure eliminated.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w
“They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.
Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.
The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.”
I was being sarcastic. :-)
I wasn’t being humorous. We are one pen stroke away from repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act.
“Doesn’t this violate Posse Comitatus?” It would but the Constitution has been dead for a while now. Just a discussion piece..... Sad.....
Did you outlaw martial law also?
I read the original story from the September 8, 2008 edition of the Army Times.
LOLOLOL - I didn’t click the link till I saw your comment.
That was HILLARIOUS!
He makes perfect sense...
The US Constitution was killed by King Abe...
What happened to Posse Comitatus????????
Keep the military OUT of domestic areas. PERIOD.
I love that clip.
Tatt
Me too.
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