Posted on 02/09/2008 5:54:38 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Mayor to Marines: Leave downtown He says urban exercises scare people
By JC REINDL BLADE STAFF WRITER
A company of Marine Corps Reservists received a cold send-off from downtown Toledo yesterday by order of Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
The 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, based in Grand Rapids, Mich., planned to spend their weekend engaged in urban patrol exercises on the streets of downtown as well as inside the mostly vacant Madison Building, 607 Madison Ave.
Toledo police knew days in advance about their plans for a three-day exercise. Yet somehow the memo never made it to Mayor Finkbeiner, who ordered the Marines out yesterday afternoon just minutes before their buses were to arrive.
"The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people," said Brian Schwartz, the mayor's spokesman.
"He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."
So after a brief stop at a friendly base in Perrysburg Township, the Marines by early evening were back on their way home to Grand Rapids.
"I wish they would have told us this four hours ago," Staff Sgt. Andre Davis said.
Sergeant Davis, who traveled ahead of the five-bus convoy, stepped from his vehicle into downtown about 3:20 p.m. and was told by a city employee that the mayor wanted him and his soldiers packed up and out by 6 p.m.
Members of the 1st Battalion, 24th Marines have trained periodically in downtown Toledo since at least 2004 and most recently in May, 2006.
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you write: “This has been an issue for years. I made a decision 15 years ago to not agree with this urban training, and I still stand by it today.”
FINE, STAND BY IT, STANDING BY IT DOESN’T MAKE YOU RIGHT; IT MAKES YOU LOOK............LIBERAL...
Thanks. I am very proud of my son and the decision that he has made.
At the same time, I am a little fearful of what serving under a Democrat CinC may bring to all our military. I was just listening on the radio to a speech that Hillary gave, I believe in Arlington.
She talks about a sixty day pullout from Iraq; then a fumbling statement about dealing with the chaos that would ensue. The prospect of that incoherent mess is making me rethink my intention of not voting for McCain.
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Carty is a useless liberal prick....I cant wait to jump on the bandwagon to pummle him over this...
Yes I live in Toledo....arg...
I live in Toledo...wishing an IED to go off is whacked ...dont be a useless prick like Carty.
And you live here...right?
Dont be an asshat....there are lots of conservatives here...we’re just outnumbered by the insane...
I didn’t say there weren’t any conservatives there.
Is it a reasonable overall characterization of the majority, and reflective of who they put into political office, or not?
Yeah, at least the old-school UAW Democrats didn’t hate the country.
Thanks for the ping. BTTT!
And further, a lot of them in that era were probably Reagan Democrats.
Hate a town?
Yeah...I’m sure toledo hates you too...
*rolleyes*
Lets stop confusing an assclown mayor and democrat machine with the people who have to suffer under it...
They win the vote because they suck minority ass all year long...
Hmm. The Boston militia drilled on Boston Common, right under the noses of General Gage's troops. No one was alarmed or frightened, except General Gage and his troops.
I guess the mayor hasn’t heard that there is crime in his town.
Ooh Rah!
Time to withhold federal subsidies from Toledo? Their schools and other services would collapse almost over night.. oh wait..
Carly sucks T-shirts were available even before this latest incident. See http://www.cafepress.com/cartysucks
Agree I do not like to see documentaries or Military Channel episodes about our military capabilities. We need to put classified / secret back in the military at all levels as essential elements of friendly information can be used against our troops. Items and capabilities from Rations to Radiation need to never be seen by anyone other than the manufacturer and end user.
Only change I’d make in recruiting offices would be to co-locate them in post offices around the nation. Cities with populations less than 80k use traveling recruiter teams for career days, job fairs etc etc .....
Train in secret or yer just asking for trouble down the road. No urban warfare training in cities IMO. Train as you fight , real shoot houses, old base housing complexes, established training centers, etc .....
Only thing I want too hear from an active duty serviceman at a press conference is that the presstitutes need to shine their shoes and get haircuts etc .....:o)
Dear Mayor Finkbeiner:
Shame of you! Your hostility toward our own sons and daughters is traitorous. You sir, do not understand the ideals of defending freedom and liberty, the very foundation of this country rests on the continued training of our brave fighting forces, The United States Military.
Your hostilities will be known to your fellow countrymen. You will feel the effects of your obvious disdain for our country.
Respectfully,
Julie
Indiana
Thankfully....is it not up to you....
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