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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
They should cancel the summer 15 days. That requirement has already been fulfilled.
$521 million down the drain. They missed the demonstration by days and weeks and months. They should have immediately been redeployed to Seattle, Portland, Kenosha, Milwaukee and Chicago.
Don’t care. They sided with an enemy made them sleep in unheated parking garages.
They protected the steal. They earned that treatment.
...and protected a fraudulent election where Kamala Harris, who is ineligible to be Vice President since she is not a natural born citizen because her parents were not citizens when she was born.
Their oaths, like hers, mean nothing. Why pay them anything at all? Let them bill the Democrat Party for private bodyguard services.
Lol.. looks like others beat me to it.
Texas told D.C. to FO, and pulled the troops back to Texas. I think one or two other states did as well.
They got cookies from Dr. Jill. Consider it payment in full.
They claim they won’t train or deploy this year, unless they get paid? Good.
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