400 members of Washington state National Guard called to D.C. to boost security during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration

Seattle Times ^ | 1/15/21 | Christine Clarridge

[myerson]

Why are so many troops being concentrated and massed in one small area?

[pnz1]

Is this not at the point of ridiculous?

[stylin19a]

Well at least the Wahington State NG finally got called out...

[stylin19a]

cripes...I really need to start using spell check

Washington

[Lean-Right]

You are correct. Trump authorized
the request as DC is under a
national emergency until after
the 20th, called by the mayor,
which Trump also authorized.

[RetiredArmy]

WA state's current Gov Insley was our congressman when I lived in Bremerton, WA for 15 years after I retired from the Army. After my wife and I married, I had problems with the Finance Office at Fort Benjamin Harrison, IN in attempting to put my wife on what the Army calls the SBP program. That is the survivor's benefit program where when the retired service member dies, the surviving spouse collects about half of his/her pension. The retired soldier pays monthly a fee, usually over $100 to this program. I contacted Insley for help. He was worthless and did nothing but run his worthless mouth.

Finally, in my last attempts to get this resolved, I contacted the head of the Army Legal Corps, the JAG corp, I contacted the Major General who was the head of the JAG Corp, whom I had known as a Captain when we were stationed in legal offices in Germany back in the late 1970s. I sent him an email and Lord and behold, two days later he called me at my work in Seattle!!!! He is a great guy. A lot of fun to play basketball with at lunch in our pickup games for physical training on our lunch hour. He got all the info he needed, assigned a full bird colonel to assist me. It took this colonel about three phone calls to Fort Ben to get my issue resolved!! SEE, military folks take care of their own!! My friend the MG JAG still today remains my friend and we talk via email. HE caused my issue to go away and be resolved in a very short minute. He got it FIXED. The forthless ass Insley DID NOTHING, JUST LIKE MILITARY HATING MARXIST'S DIMOCRATS ALWAYS DO FOR THE MILITARY, NOTHING!!! Pi$$ on Insley. I am damned glad the day my wife and I left that sorry worthless stinking crap hole of WA state. The land is beautiful. But the majority of the people are nothing better than Bolsheviks of the highest order!!!

[RinaseaofDs]

I’ve lived in many places on both the East and West Coast. Florida, Texas, and overseas.

The meanest people on the planet are in Western WA. The mendacity and sense of entitlement, the arrogance, it hangs like a cloud over everything. East of the mountains, it’s a brand new ball game.

From Bellingham to just south of Olympia is a canker on the state. I live just to the north of where most of the puss festers and seethes in the center of it.

Boston area is next, followed by New Jersey along the turnpike from NYC. Then Baltimore, Philly.

DC isn’t a city, and the weird part is that there are so many good, competent people there mixed in with the utterly evil.

Detroit is strange, because it’s run by evil people, but there are a ton of good people in it. Milwaukee is like that too.

Minneapolis is sharking its way to the bottom.

[RetiredArmy]

You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT regarding western Marxist WA. TOTALLY correct. Nothing but a bunch of COMMUNISTS and that this comment from someone who served in the military all my years in the Cold War vs. the commie pukes. These pukes are anti-everything about this nation. I am really surprised they all have not moved to Red China, Red Korea or the Soviet Union before this. We were the happiest people on the planet when we ran from that mob in 2006. My wife lived there from 1956 until then. She was GLAD to go. She saw that city fall into the pit of satan during her lifetime. She could not believe it.

[TennesseeGirl]

"We must also account for the actual DC police force, the US Marshals and Secret Service people not to mention a strong FIB force that will be there.

Aannnnnd, don't forget...the National Guard as been sworn in as U.S. Marshalls, too, for this little shindig.