[DuncanWaring]

Posse Comitatus applies only to the Army, not the Navy (and by extension, the Marines).

Supposedly, the Navy and Marines are in practice included in Posse Comitatus by DOD Regulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

I’m not taking any comfort from the fact that this doesn’t sound like a Posse Comitatus violation.

[Travis McGee]

Lawyerly wonking of the legalisms of the PCA doesn’t diminish the fact that the guy said we’re integrating the operational capabilities of the military and civilian police, with an eye toward conducting joint ops.

That should not be happening in the USA. The USSA, maybe.

[ansel12]

At 2:00 a.m. Monday morning, 800 State Police Officers and 8,000 National Guardsmen were ordered to the city by Michigan Governor George Romney. They were later augmented by 4,700 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division ordered in by President Lyndon Johnson.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (Army News Service, Sept. 20, 2007) - Fifty years ago the 101st Airborne Division entered Little Rock, Ark., on orders of the president of the United States. The mission: to uphold a Supreme Court ruling to integrate public schools.

We used to prefer paratroopers.