Posted on 02/12/2013 5:18:39 PM PST by raptor22
“...Seasoned troops” are those who have been mustered by their officers and assaulted and peppered...”
Aww, yer just playing “ketchup” with ConservativeInPA’s comments here...
Yes, but that observation is not as fun as theorizing about some nefarious conspiracy. The horse is already out of the barn on this one, there’s really no point to trying to get people to be sensible on this topic.
At 1.6 billion rounds
That’s two 50 round boxes of ammo each month for twelve months for 1.3 million people.
How many people in the DHS are issued weapons? Over a million?
Or if we spread that over the five year contract that’s just over 250,000.
Still seems like a lot to me, but I don’t really know how many armed “officers” they have.
We need a way to identify where these people live.
DHS would be supplying ammo for the US Marshall’s service, Coast Guard, DEA, Customs and Border Patrol, BATFE, Secret Service... And a dozen or so other agencies. It could easily be over 250,000 people with issued weapons. A couple boxes of practice ammo a month and the math works out.
I love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
October 7, 2012
Homeland Security graduates first Corps of Homeland Youth
October 7, 2012. Vicksburg. The federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the Hitler Youth of 1930’s Germany. Regardless of their name, the Dept of Homeland Security has just graduated its first class of 231 Homeland Youth. Kids, aged 18-24 and recruited from the President’s AmeriCorp volunteers, they represent the first wave of DHS’s youth corps, designed specifically to create a full time, paid, standing army of FEMA Youth across the country.
On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. While the idea of having a volunteer force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural disasters sounds great, the details and timing of this new government army is somewhat curious, if not disturbing...
Read at:
Maybe the ammo is for the Egyptians.
Obama has given them much of anything...F-15s, tank, etc.
“...Kids, aged 18-24...”
Kids???
I see Thugs with government commissions (in times of crisis/disasters) with attitudes, expecting authoritative entitlements, and guns/ammo aimed right at us...
When they are given the chance to somehow “control” a population in a disater area, keep us pinned up instead of letting us evac, setting up checkpoints, warrantless searches (which the government is already tickling the peoples feet with now...
I see a conflict brewing where no one wins in the end...
But hey, if it does come to such a conflict...There certainly WILL be a significant surprtise because they are hedging their bets that we will not fight back...
What a poor position for them to be in...hehehe
I wonder if Obama wants the National Civilian Security Force to be similar to the Waffen SS?
After watching this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ3QXxmcvss
about them I learned that they competed directly with the regular army (Wehrmacht).
Quote from the documentary (starting around the 3:20 mark):
“The head of the SS - Heinrich Himmler - wanted a unique, new force. An army of ideologically committed elite troops to rival the regular army.”
Obama did say, “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
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