Why is National Guard recruiting for 'internment' cops?

2009 WorldNetDaily ^ | August 07, 2009 | Bob Unruh

[adanaC]

An ad campaign featured on a U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an "Internment/Resettlement" specialist is raising alarms across the country, generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps, a roundup of dissidents and a crackdown on "threatening" conservatives.

The ads, at the GoArmy.com website as well as others including Monster.com, cite the need for:

"Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; and coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.

The campaign follows by only weeks a report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warning about "right-wing extremists" who could pose a danger to the country – including those who support third-party political candidates, oppose abortion and would prefer to have the U.S. immigration laws already on the books enforced.

[ansel12]

Oh yeah, but the minor similarities seem to stir up the paranoids. They arrested over 12,000 thousand of us and the 82nd Airborne was helping to defend the city. Good times.

[ansel12]

The problem in this field is keeping enough people for this work, here is a year 2000 article about retention efforts in the "95C I/R (corrections internment / resettlement) or "Charlies" (called 31C "Charlies" since 5/01/2006). Look at the very last sentence. That description goes back at least 40 years and probably much further, they are normal words for the military to have used for centuries.

>Military Corrections — Locking Down The Retention Problem Military Police, May, 2000 by Dennis R. Reiber <

"Without the protection of a sidearm or baton, they maintain custody and control of the military criminal element around the world. Across the centuries they have been called turnkeys, prison guards, cage-kickers, jailers, and corrections specialist. The list of nicknames for the personnel who work the military prisons is nearly as varied as the number of daily missions they are tasked to carry out

Beginning with this article and expounding on in future articles, we will examine the situation of below-average reenlistment figures for the correction field and what options may be available to address the problem. In this article, we emphasize essential factors a soldier considers in reenlistment as factors surrounding the work environment.

At any given time, a soldier working in the confinement arena can be assigned to perform any one of 53 mission-specific tasks either individually or with fellow corrections personnel. Working in a military confinement facility rates as one of the most critical, yet most heralded, military occupational specialty (MOS) in today's Army. Yet, for those who choose to embark on this career path, it can also be one of the most rewarding professions in the military.

In addition to a physical building, proper locations, and the variety of physical security requirements for the facility itself, there is the additional, and by far the most critical, requirement--having enough soldiers to administer and operate these confinement facilities. Unfortunately, in this career field, we are losing an alarming number of these highly trained and specialized soldiers. The MOS responsible for this job may be found in the Career Management Field 95 (Law Enforcement). They are referred to as 95C I/R (corrections internment / resettlement) or "Charlies."

[kitchen]

Someone local - who apparently read the darn thing - pointed out to me the other day that there is no requirement of "language skills"in the job description. Is that common?

[Seven plus One]

Not a new specialty. WND can take a hike.

[ansel12]

The military has a constant need for 95C I/R (corrections internment/resettlement) or “Charlies. (called 31C since May, 2006)

Current military prisons

United States Disciplinary Barracks
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas

United States Air Force
Air Force Confinement Facility, Kirtland AFB, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico
Air Force Confinement Facility, Lackland AFB, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
United Kingdom Corrections Facility, RAF Lakenheath, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom

United States Army
Army Regional Confinement Facility, Fort Carson, Fort Carson, Colorado
Army Regional Confinement Facility, Fort Lewis, Fort Lewis, Washington
Army Regional Confinement Facility Europe, Germany, U.S. Army Garrison Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Army Regional Confinement Facility, Fort Knox, Fort Knox, Kentucky
Army Regional Confinement Facility, Fort Sill, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Army Regional Confinement Facility, Camp Humphreys, Camp Humphreys, USFK

United States Navy
Consolidated brigs
Naval Consolidated Brig, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California
Waterfront Brigs/CCU
Brig/Consolidated Confinement Unit Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
Naval Brig Yokosuka, U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan
Naval Brig Rota, Naval Station Rota, Spain
Navy Brig, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Navy Brig, Puget Sound, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington
Pre-Trial Confinement Facility/PCF
Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Great Lakes, Illinois
Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Submarine Base New London, Connecticut
Pre-Trial Confinement Facility/Consolidated Confinement Unit, Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan
Pre-Trial Confinement Facility, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Detention Facility
Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico
Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland
Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia
Naval Station San Diego, California
Anacostia Naval Station, District of Columbia
Naval Air Station North Island, California
Naval Air Station Lemoore, California
Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi
Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas
Commander Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan
Commander Naval Activities Marianas, Guam
Naval Support Activity Naples
Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia
Afloat Brigs
USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
USS George Washington (CVN-73)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
USS Constellation (CV-64)
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
USS Wasp (LHD-1)
USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)
USS Bataan (LHD-5)
USS Essex (LHD-2)
USS Boxer (LHD-4)
USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)
USS Nassau (LHA-4)
USS Tarawa (LHA-1)
USS Peleliu (LHA-5)
USS Simon Lake (AS-33)
USS Emory S. Land (AS-39)

United States Marine Corps
Marine Corps Brig, Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California
Marine Corps Brig, Camp Hansen, Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan
Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Quantico, Virginia
Marine Corps Brig, Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina‡

[kitchen]

Thanks for the info. I suppose the staffing requirements and turnover rate are not available.

[ansel12]

Here is an article discussing the problems of keeping enough 31C soldiers (95C when the article was written in 2000).

Military Corrections; Locking Down The Retention Problem
Military Police, May, 2000 by Dennis R. Reiber
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBW/is_1_19/ai_70378774/

[ansel12]

Here is another mention of the shortage almost 40 years ago.

“Security staffing of the facilities with improperly trained military police also posed a major problem. The MP Corps in Vietnam severely lacked the needed number of personnel trained as MOS 95C Correction Specialist. The temporary fix was to pull line duty MPs trained as MOS 95Bs Military Policeman, from field units and assign them to the facilities creating major disruptions in the ability for their parent units to perform their missions. In 1971 to address the problem at DHAC the 18th MP Brigade reassigned the 300th MP Company (95th MP Battalion) from line duty to correction duty at the DAHC.”

[kitchen]

I grew up an Air Force brat and I cannot honestly recall ever hearing - at school or play - of any ones' dad getting locked up. The only time I ever saw MPs was when showing ID at the gate or when they'd track us down, playing in the woods too close to the flight line. :)

Correction duty must be a rough assignment. It's one thing to do what you're told, and still do a good job; another to re-up for something that burns you out.

[Sprite518]

If they start rounding people up, they will be met with gunfire and possibly open up a revolution. This is not Nazi Germany. Most people will not put up with it.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

World Net Daily is garbage. Pathetic, disgusting, trash. They’re connecting dots that don’t connect to incite fear. Tossing chum in the water to draw sharks.

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I reached that point a few days ago. I am sick of WND.

[Apple Blossom]

Looks like someone else had the same idea you did. At least RatsDawg gave you credit for it. Check the first few posts.

[bmwcyle]

I already posted this on my other thread. Way ahead of you dear and I already saw this.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Vigilance yes, conspiracy, no.

Anything we're going to be vigilant against is going to be, by definition, a conspiracy. We need to use better words to distinguish real threats from black helicopter fantasies. Language is important. Conspiracies happen every day.

[ansel12]

I grew up an Air Force brat and I cannot honestly recall ever hearing - at school or play - of any ones' dad getting locked up.

As an adult in the military you do learn about the crimes and the court marshals and the men on the military death row at Ft. Leavenworth.

[Palladin]

Thanks for the info. I didn’t know these guys had to carry out their difficult tasks UNARMED.

That’s not the way it used to be.

[ansel12]

Thanks for the info. I didn’t know these guys had to carry out their difficult tasks UNARMED.

That was from 2000. It may be that when they are in close contact with the prisoner population they cannot have guns.

At quarters that close then I guess if handling procedures fail that a gun would more likely be taken by the inmates rather than a guard breaking free and using his gun. Introducing a firearm into the prison population is probably a bad idea. Even city cops do not take their guns among the jailed.