Posted on 01/21/2021 8:42:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to vacate congressional grounds on Thursday and have been photographed having to sleep in parking garages while temperatures in the nation’s capital were set to dip down to near-freezing temperatures.
The photos of the living conditions that the National Guardsmen were forced to endure come after Democrats took complete control of the federal government this week following Joe Biden being sworn in as the nation’s 46th president.
“Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked down our lines taking photos, shaking our hands and thanking us for our service,” a National Guardsmen told Politico. “Within 24 hours, they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage. We feel incredibly betrayed.”
“All National Guard troops were told to vacate the Capitol and nearby congressional buildings on Thursday, and to set up mobile command centers outside or in nearby hotels, another Guardsman confirmed,” Politico reported. “They were told to take their rest breaks during their 12-hour shifts outside and in parking garages, the person said.”
“Speaker Pelosi personally met with the Secretary of the Army to demand 14,000 National Guard troops be deployed to the Capitol,” a source familiar with the security discussions at the Capitol told The Daily Wire in a statement. “But there was no logistical plan provided by the Speaker’s office on where the service members would sleep.”
And if you want to use the bathroom, well pic.twitter.com/YXLawaqA0Q
— Alex Horton (@AlexHortonTX) January 22, 2021
MILITARY SOURCE IN DC: “For the last week my battalion has been sleeping on the floor in the Senate cafeteria. Today the Senate kicked us out & moved us to a cold parking garage. 5000 soldiers. 1 power outlet. One bathroom. This is how Joe Biden’s America treats solders.”
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I spent a couple of weeks in the boonies in Germany, where the temperature hovered between 10 degrees and 25 below. It was a training exercise. We were miserable but didn’t assign blame. This was back in the 60’s when the conservatives would have given us a pat on the back and the liberals could care less about our situation. Full circle people. Give these troops a pat on the back but don’t go snowflake about their suffering.
It’s not as though they had adequate accommodations before either, senate cafeteria floor!?
Put them in one of those damned closed museums on the National Mall. There is plenty of space there, and probably a kitchen of some sort. Democrats treat the military like animals sometimes.
Even the homeless and illegals get treated better.
This is a disgrace to our Military.....
I was in the Illinois NG in 92-93. Twice they sent us to southern Illinois for floods. A whole company had to sleep in the band room of a high school.
No, we couldn’t spread out in the rest of the school and find anyplace more comfortable. Here, just sleep on this tile floor.
Nothing ever changes. Hope these guys and gals will remember being treated like shit.
I was in the Illinois NG in 92-93. Twice they sent us to southern Illinois for floods. A whole company had to sleep in the band room of a high school.
No, we couldn’t spread out in the rest of the school and find anyplace more comfortable. Here, just sleep on this tile floor.
Nothing ever changes. Hope these guys and gals will remember being treated like shit.
Suck it up, buttercups. It’s not 130 degrees with camel spiders and you will be home in a few days and probly showered within the last 48 hours.
If it sucks so much to be a military pawn you should have went combat arms
The left despises, LOATHES, the military.
Always has.
Always will.
The Rat party has always had a dislike for the U.S. Military since the Vietnam war. A war they created and a war which they refused to let the U.S. win.
If the Pentagon wanted to they could have sent these guys to the local hotels that were probably vacant anyway or at least provide an area with proper living facilities. The leadership in the Pentagon must have gone nuts to treat these troops this way.
GOD bless Texas.
Good for Governor Abbott. Why are they still there anyway? The usurper has been sworn in.
Get used to it.
And kiss your families goodbye.... You will again be seeing never ending deployments in third world hellholes, fighting interminable wars for the Military Industrial Complex and the warmongering uniparty politicians, and protecting Democrat Run Capitol regions, In D.C. and in Democrat states.
Beyond despicable!!
flr
What an idiotic statement.
Betrayed? You have to be regarded in the first place to be betrayed. The fools are just pawns. Mere checkers in the perverse game of politics to the dims. They are fools to have ever thought they mattered at all to the left.
Why don’t people understand that these cretins in the left are nothing but sociopaths who will use anyone and go to any extreme no matter how illegal or ruthless to have their power?
I wouldn’t have thought that a sarcasm tag was necessary, as it seemed obvious. Since you missed it, to clarify: that was 100% sarcasm.
37° in D.C.
we still want to get to the bottom of who made the call:
(d) Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Twitter. “Capitol Police have apologized to the Guardsmen and they will be allowed back into the complex tonight.”
So why would the CP need to apologize?
Who made the call to put the toy soldiers in a superspreader toy box ?
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