In regards to your question to someone else: How would you handle mass evacuations from a city? Hopefully not like Mayor Ray Nagin did in the pre-Katrina hours. Frankly I don't understand your argument against the Marines conducting the same type of exercises in the same part of the city that they have done in the past. If Toledo is like any other city in this country, their downtown with shops and stores doesn't even exist anymore.
This is not about the Marines. This is about the military conducting exercises on our inner city streets...
Hell, on other threads they are suggesting the while the Military is down there, they may as well take out drug dealers!! Where does it stop!??
Look, you want to be overly gung ho about our Military, that is fine. But don’t lose the vision of WHY we came up with the Posse Comitatus Act. The amount of people here I am seeing who have lost sight of that fine line is staggering to me...
There is only one way for this Military to have the readiness you and others are talking about, and that is to be present and training in every major city across this nation. The second one division who has been training in Toledo is sent to Akron, they are where they were before they started in Toledo. It will not work the way folks are saying it will.
Marines and other Military units must learn concepts and SOPs in Urban Guerrilla warfare. And, I feel better about it, if it is needed, because we have at present more boys and girls on active duty at with sterling experience from the activities in Iraq’s cities...
We don’t need our Military doing exercises in our streets to become normal. I don’t care how patriotic or pro troops anyone is. Because the next steps are obvious. More Militerizing of local law enforcment and eventual continued prescence buy active Military.
No Thanks... I’m not ready to give up this for more security.