Posted on 06/02/2020 4:15:00 PM PDT by bkopto
An 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force battalion arrived to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland Monday evening for a civil unrest mission in the nation’s capitol, according to sources.
The IRF battalion — which deployed to Iraq earlier this year to quell Iran-backed violence — brought approximately 750 soldiers, ten Black Hawk helicopters, and four Chinooks, according to sources. The helicopters are utility, not attack, and are used to transport troops short distances.
The aircraft are just one of the ways troops could be transported, but would give the IRF the ability to rapidly deploy to a number of locations in the D.C. Metro area quickly.
The force was ordered to the region on Monday afternoon, after being told to be ready on Saturday, sources told Breitbart News.
Two more IRF battalions have been put on short-notice alert status — meaning they would have to be ready to deploy within two hours if ordered.
The orders to the IRF and other active-duty military units come as President Trump urged state governors to take back the streets from rioters, who have engaged in a spree of violence, looting, destruction of property, and other crimes.
Washington, D.C., stayed relatively quiet on Monday night compared to previous nights after the deployments were ordered.
Trump also fully-activated the D.C. National Guard on Sunday, to respond to the mass unrest in Washington.
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So... we’re seeing an actual overthrow attempt by the DNC aren’t we?
They are only martyrs in blue areas. In red areas we will be high-fiving.
Oh great. More unarmed moving targets moved into the
vicinity. That’ll help.
Until someone finds a reason to believe otherwise, I do not
expect these troops to use live ammo.
The time to put down rabid animals, is way past due.
Sort of like a big airshow but this time with live ammo against Antifa and its followers.
I again predict the professional Antifa fascists will use college kids as live shields when the shooting starts. Perfect for faces on tearjerking news updates. Sweet white girl who was a cheerleader and handsome Denzel Washington lookalike black law student who takes care of his widowed mother—now both dead by the Trump led troops.
No Marines left at the Marine Barracks? Then just start passing out M-1s at the Pentagon. There should be enough senior officers there to make up a battalion.
I doubt the NG are less ready in DC than my state.
And I know for certain that they are carrying live ammo in my state.
Hopefully their presence ends this insanity.
It’s going to take dead people, and top level arrests to end
this mess.
I’m talking Sores, Governors, Mayors...
As for Hollywood, any aiding terrorists, and their causes,
they are all fair game.
The Left wants to win and has decided revolution is the answer. President Trump and the Armed Forces must correct them.
I fear that is true.
I would prefer we remain able to keep the high moral ground rather than fall to the level of the Chinese and Tianamen square.
The Chinese and others really want a free for all with lots of dead Americans.
Sad to see so many here supporting that.
By China.
WoooHooo.
I would not have wanted that duty. No ammo, no weapons, an article 15 waiting to happen.
M-1s? That’s so 1944 but would still be effective.
Same thing.
This is like that scene out of aliens where they have to remove their ammo right?
Dariusbane likes “This is like that scene out of aliens where they have to remove their ammo right?”
They’ll use black idiots as their human shields. They’ve been doing that all along.
Black Hawks and Chinooks - Army aviation rocks!
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