[Repeat Offender]

Can somebody explain to me why the active duty military is training civilian police from around the nation to work WITH them in combined operations? Anybody ever heard of the Posse Comitatus Act? I understand the military using role-players to practice working with FOREIGN police. And I understand civilian police getting SWAT training. But why are the Marines practicing WITH police to conduct combined ops, here in America? Are we still the USA, or the USSA? When did this happen?

1. Ever stop to wonder who is training security forces (ie police) in places like, oh I dunno Iraq and Afghanistan?

2. Ever wonder if it is MPs learning from their civilian counterparts to respond to situations that happen on military installations/deployed areas?

3. Did you look up "I&I" to discover it is Inspector/Instructor (active duty staff at a reserve station), or the USMC Reserve Unit (couldn't possibly be MILITARY POLICE Company A, Lexington, KY) in KY to see what it was?

4. Reservists train 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year....ergo, the best people to learn from would be, perhaps PEOPLE (police) THAT DO IT EVERY DAY.

5. Yes, INTEGRATION. If you line everyone up in the same stack, you have the subject matter experts (civ police) right there to assist with the tactics; vice having an all police stack as a demonstration and an all Marine stack doing trial by error.

I'm guessing you answered "NO" to all of the above and just knee-jerked.

Good Lord......everything is not some conspiracy to kill the civilian populace. Find a sponsor and drive through Camp Lejeune; I promise (as in I see it every day), it's nothing but Gadsden Flags and NOBAMA stickers.

Anyhow, if you want Marines to deploy to the Afghan two-way rifle range without proper training, why don't you just go over there instead with whatever lack of know-how you have?

[DuncanWaring]

"I think it's always good when you get an opportunity to work on some similar tactics and procedures so that everybody's kind of operating on the same page. That way when you bring teams together from active duty and the civilian side, it makes the integration a whole lot smoother."

These guys aren't getting ready for Afghanistan.

[MileHi]

Good Lord......everything is not some conspiracy to kill the civilian populace.

The better question is, are ANY of them?

Do you know who you replied to?

[EasySt]

Indeed. And they recruit from the civilian forces as well.

I don’t trust the current administration, but this kind of thing has it’s place.