Posted on 06/23/2021 7:18:08 PM PDT by caww
The half-billion-dollar National Guard price tag to man the U.S. Capitol for more than five months has emptied the Guard's coffers and will affect readiness if Congress does not act, National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel Hokanson said Wednesday.
The Guard’s largest and most expensive mission was to protect the .U.S capital, including providing security for the presidential inauguration and the much-criticized militarization of the U.S. Capitol grounds with razor wire and 7-foot nonscalable fences....The peak deployment in the nation’s capital required 26,000 service members from all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia.
Without the reimbursement, Hokanson said the National Guard will cancel planned training and exercises in August and September.
Hokanson said he spent many nights walking the Capitol grounds and speaking to Guard members about the strains of the mission, which was extended in March for an additional two months. Often, Guard members had no idea when they would go home to families and jobs.
“Universally, they said, ‘Hey, this is what we signed up to do,’” he said, noting that the bureau attempts to balance the citizen-soldiers' civilian careers, families, and Guard duties.
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Paying bills is white supremacy.
Typical of the Biden’s...they dont pay their bills...
Send the bill to the DNC!
I thought everybody in the military was black. /s
The Guard should never have sided with the communists and stuck with American Patriots. At least they work and pay their bills.
There! Fixed it!
Typical of all democrats. They steal, that is their MO.
BTW, I watched a bit on the Jim Jones thing in Guyana. So I did some research on the scum. Everyone ought to read up on it.
Reading up on him it becomes clear, what most of us already know, that the liberalism (Nazicrats) is a cult.
Jim Jones was very much in with all the California / San Francisco politicians, including Nancy Pelosi.
Surprised you would assume that....
Bidens don’t do anything except take or give away what’s not theirs in order t get what they want...Greed rules!
Jills handing out cookies to our strong and dignified soldiers was an insult as well as putting them in parking garages.
Don’t care. They protected the Communist. They can complain to the Communist. They disobeyed their oaths.
I am surprised Congress hasn’t asked Trump to pay.
He used religion as a means to the end.
The history and views of the creep is the definition of the present day NazicRAT party.
Can’t blame the Guard. They’re ordinary citizens doing their duty. They were pawns used by Democrats.
Pretty expensive photo/propaganda op.
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