Posted on 05/13/2015 4:52:06 PM PDT by Enlightened1
RICHLAND | In what appears to be the second such drill, Special Forces have been deployed domestically alongside local Sheriffs to train for midnight raids in Richland County South Carolina.
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So much for Posse Comitatus
Even I didn’t see this coming when I was first SWATted, nigh unto 30 years ago.
So, we’re to expect Special Forces to train wherever their objective is. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, etc? “Hey guys, can we send our Special Forces over to train, then they can complete the mission while they are there too!”
What is so disturbing about this?
Care to elaborate?
I am not too bothered with them training in civilian areas as long as it is very well advertised.
It does sound a bit odd to be training with civilian police. That might be over the top and maybe even a violation of the ban on military use as law enforcement.
I don’t think they are “training” with the police, but the police are more likely advising where to train, or showing them urban swat techniques.
A little thing called the Posse Comitatus Act?
You know, the one that says very damned specifically that the military cannot be used to enforce domestic civil law?
So, the question is begged:
Why would they have a need to train with a civilian police Special Weapons and Assholes Team?
Oh, okay. So they are supposed to go train in urban areas in the middle east?
SWAT specializes in urban tactics. Special Forces may need to know that for deployments over seas. Special Forces are usually patriotic, I highly doubt they would go along with deploying in the states.
Here is a news link about saying they are “training” for domestic raids.
If I were an illegal I would be scared.
Where in the US are there areas that are geographically and meteorologically like the Middle East? Desert Southwest? OR maybe train in friendly countries closer to the battle area?
Hoss
If I were an illegal I would be scared.
I’m American and scared.
Looks like SF soldiers are training to make urban arrests. Police don’t and won’t do urban warfare the way soldiers do. SF soldiers are mainly instructors trained to train recruits from among friendlies (assets) in foreign countries. Looks like they’re training to train foreign police now.
I have no idea of what your back ground is, what you do, who you are...I care less...but allow me to expound upon my point:
There is a long standing, and I do mean long standing, training program in the US Armed Forces called MOUT.
It stands for Military Operations Urban Terrain.
It was conceived and implemented for the express purpose of training troops for urban operations...breaching doorways, clearing rooms, etc.
Nearly every base in the US has a facility for this of sorts...some better than others.
In addition, Special Forces units have even more specialized training in Urban Warfare and concentrate on middle east scenarios.
SWAT as it is and was conceived for the US police forces, is a civilian entity, intended to enable the civilian police forces to enter barricaded situations, serve high-risk warrants, do high-risk arrests, etc, etc, on citizens of the United States.
There is no need for civilian police units to do simpatico training with military personnel.
To carry it further, it gives the appearance of someone attempting to prepare for an order to use the military in enforcement of civil law.
That is a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
Now, you may call it paranoia and your statement about Special Forces being patriotic borders on naivete, but would you ever put anything beyond this administration?
Yes, I would hope that the US Special Forces and for that matter, any member of the US Armed Forces, would have the moral and ethical fortitude to refuse any such order from the Commander in Chief, but why should the piece of shit put them in such a position in the first place?
Our military leadership is now rife with sycophants and liberal idiots with political aspirations that are fully capable of doing everything they could to carry out the treasonous intentions of the current CinC.
I put nothing beyond them, nor do I trust the piece of shit in the White House.
I believe the headline was "Drill with Local SWAT for Domestic Raids" or something close to that.
That's enough for me.
I find this training very inappropriate. A wedge is being driven between the military and the people.
It is up to the officer corps to push back and push back hard.
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