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Commanding general of D.C. National Guard to be removed from post (at 12:01 pm Jan 20th)
WaPo ^ | Peter Hermann

Posted on 01/13/2017 9:30:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The head of the D.C. National Guard, Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz, said Friday that he has been ordered removed from his command effective Jan. 20, 12:01 p.m., just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

Schwartz’s forced departure will come in the midst of the presidential inauguration that he has spent months helping plan alongside D.C. police, the U.S. Secret Service and other top District officials. He will turn over command to an interim as power transfers from one president to the next, and just before the inaugural parade marches down Pennsylvania Avenue.

“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration.

“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, 65, said. “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

Schwartz said he would oversee duties in a command center and then depart at 12:01 p.m., retiring from the Army.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 1; inauguration; nationalguard; schwartz; trump; trumpinaugural
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To: txhurl

Exactly. Glad Trumps people are on the ball.


201 posted on 01/13/2017 12:40:16 PM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that rmemoveth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: RoosterRedux

Schwatz was appointed by Bush, not Obama.

It could be another of Obama’s last little revenges.

Whatever, he was in the job for almost 9 years - it’s time to move on.
He should have voluntarily retired years ago. He has been blocking a lot of people under him.


202 posted on 01/13/2017 12:40:21 PM PST by oldbill
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To: monkeywrench

Do you remember what the thread title was? I’d like to read that.


203 posted on 01/13/2017 12:40:33 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Steve_Seattle

How can 0bola order him fired at 12:01, when 0 is no longer prez?


204 posted on 01/13/2017 12:45:16 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah

Obama will be much too busy pardoning his cronies in the last hour of his presidency to worry about firing people.


205 posted on 01/13/2017 12:48:02 PM PST by rebrane (Love Trump's Hat)
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To: little jeremiah

A woman walking in the woods near the Boathouse at Fletcher’s Cove on Wednesday found a violin case containing at least one firearm, and police said they discovered other weapons strewn along the C&O Canal.

At least a dozen police officers descended on the area near the boathouse late Wednesday morning. Authorities called in an explosive ordnance disposal unit, or bomb squad, to help with the search as additional weapons were found.

“At this point, we don’t know how they got there, why they’re here or when they got here,” said Sgt. Anna Rose, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Park Police, which has jurisdiction over the area that runs along the Potomac River.

More here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/gun-found-in-violin-case-near-canal-road-in-northwest-washington/2017/01/04/45ea4f04-d2a8-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html


206 posted on 01/13/2017 12:48:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: little jeremiah

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/gun-found-in-violin-case-near-canal-road-in-northwest-washington/2017/01/04/45ea4f04-d2a8-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html


207 posted on 01/13/2017 12:50:46 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Throwing a weapon into the river is the classic way to get rid of it after committing a crime. Have there been any... crimes reported in DC in the last few weeks? /s


208 posted on 01/13/2017 12:52:48 PM PST by rebrane (Love Trump's Hat)
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To: RoosterRedux
He just needs someone who he knows WILL follow orders. Not some military political hack.


209 posted on 01/13/2017 12:52:55 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: rebrane

I have no idea what the weapons found are all about.


210 posted on 01/13/2017 12:56:07 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: little jeremiah

I tried search,but that’s kind of a waste of time. If I find it, I’ll let you know.


211 posted on 01/13/2017 1:06:33 PM PST by monkeywrench (Deut. 27:17 Cursed be he that rmemoveth his neighbor's landmark)
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To: blueunicorn6
This Soldier is 65. How much does he know about his 18 year old Soldiers?

If he's any good, he knows a lot about his 18 year soldiers. I did. I walked the flight line every day when I was activated for Desert Storm, and I was only an 04. My CO wanted it that way! 'Course I was only 51, but to an E-2 I was ancient!

212 posted on 01/13/2017 1:06:36 PM PST by Ace's Dad ("America is Great because America is Good " Alexis de Tocqueville)
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To: DoughtyOne

I was being facetious, I know, but was thinking out loud how grateful BiBi and Putin have to be that Americans, miraculously, were able to successfully give Obama and Hillary the boot! Just amazing relief for Netanyahu, and for Vlad a pleasure to have a new mouse to play with.

The mouse is gone and the lion has been given his place.

I am giddy happy! Thx, dearest DD.


213 posted on 01/13/2017 1:14:35 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Educationdemia is the farm team for more Marxists coming.... infinitum.)
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To: IVAXMAN

Well there are leftists who are planning to riot all of the inaugural weekend


214 posted on 01/13/2017 1:15:03 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: RitaOK

Okay, I apologize for not picking up on that.

Thanks for the nice follow-up.

I’m about as close to giddy as it gets.

My giddy high point comes when sound players and policy are in place.

Less than a week! “:^)


215 posted on 01/13/2017 1:18:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (John McStain. The friend of those who hate our nation.)
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To: Resettozero
"If you're positive."

The article did not specifically mention the order as coming from Trump or Obama, but from "the president." Since Obama is the president now, and the order came now, I assume it came from Obama. I don't want to get caught up in the exact moment the order takes effect (12:00 or 12:01 or whatever), but it seems to me that an order issued now must come from the sitting president.
216 posted on 01/13/2017 1:31:51 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle; RayofHope

Just posted by RayofHope on another thread.

Jennifer Griffin-

Pentagon says nothing unusual for head of DC National Guard, a political appointee, to be asked to step down Jan 20.


217 posted on 01/13/2017 1:37:36 PM PST by STARLIT (Draining the Swamp includes Cleaning Out The Sewer.)
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To: Covenantor

That list of decorations is quite suggestive.

What it suggests to me is the question, “How the hell did this guy rise to flag rank?”


218 posted on 01/13/2017 1:38:33 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dragnet2; monkeywrench

Thanks - monkeywrench, is dragnet’s article the incident, or something else? I haven’t clicked link yet, just intermittently on FR today.


219 posted on 01/13/2017 1:40:57 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
The timing of this may be because the plan is to change commanders at a critical time, causing chaos and then blaming it on Trump. After all, the general was relieved when Trump was sworn in, right? And, he is black, so a racist Trump relieved a black general as soon as he was sworn in. Never mind the facts, the press will send out that story.

If that werew so...Trump could promptly re-apppoint him at 12.02.

220 posted on 01/13/2017 1:41:16 PM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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