Posted on 08/30/2024 7:02:44 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved a request to provide the Secret Service with additional military support capabilities for presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the upcoming election, the Pentagon and the Secret Service said separately on Thursday.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh did not provide details on the type of support that would be provided but said Austin had directed U.S. Northern Command to plan and provide support to the Secret Service at
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I saw this earlier and it made me feel queazy particularly after the Army tried to smear Trump over his visit at Arlington cemetery. I don’t trust the brass farther than I can spit.
They were being political and were dead wrong.
This explains it.
Waaay out of pentagons jurisdiction. No.
Same here. The hoofbeats of martial law are just over the horizon.
Yeah, bozo Austin might see this as an opportunity to dump/transfer his own affirmative action hires.
$3 billion annually can’t take care of this? Aside from leadership, what specific capabilities is the USSS operating under a deficit?
A replacement of the USS Bonhomme Richard LHD-6 (which Congress has failed to budget for) is $3.6 - $4 billion.
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