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National Guard threatens to cancel training and exercises if not reimbursed for $521M Capitol deployment......
.washingtonexaminer ^ | 6/23/2021 | Abraham Mahshie

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: halfabillion; nationalguard; waste
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1 posted on 06/23/2021 7:18:08 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Paying bills is white supremacy.


2 posted on 06/23/2021 7:20:06 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Just because I coughed on you does not mean that I have covid. It means that we have covid. )
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To: caww

Typical of the Biden’s...they dont pay their bills...


3 posted on 06/23/2021 7:20:58 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: caww

Send the bill to the DNC!


4 posted on 06/23/2021 7:21:20 PM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: Jonty30

I thought everybody in the military was black. /s


5 posted on 06/23/2021 7:23:33 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: caww

The Guard should never have sided with the communists and stuck with American Patriots. At least they work and pay their bills.


6 posted on 06/23/2021 7:24:36 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Typical of the Biden’s LIEberals...they dont pay their bills...

There! Fixed it!

7 posted on 06/23/2021 7:24:37 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: caww
But , But Dr Evil Jill did a photo op with stale cookies the Little commie WH staff had laying around so they can eat them on the Cold parking garage floor while the illegal alien border invaders stay at the Hyatt .
8 posted on 06/23/2021 7:35:13 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists is a )
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To: Tennessee Nana

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.


9 posted on 06/23/2021 7:38:53 PM PDT by crz
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Jim Jones was very much in with all the California / San Francisco politicians, including Nancy Pelosi.


10 posted on 06/23/2021 7:40:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: lgjhn23

Surprised you would assume that....


11 posted on 06/23/2021 7:45:26 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Jonty30

Bidens don’t do anything except take or give away what’s not theirs in order t get what they want...Greed rules!


12 posted on 06/23/2021 7:47:42 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: ncalburt

Jills handing out cookies to our strong and dignified soldiers was an insult as well as putting them in parking garages.


13 posted on 06/23/2021 7:50:14 PM PDT by caww ( )
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Don’t care. They protected the Communist. They can complain to the Communist. They disobeyed their oaths.


14 posted on 06/23/2021 7:51:55 PM PDT by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: caww
Wasting their budget on theater for the Democrats was a poor choice. The National Guard should not have agreed to waste their time and the taxpayers' money putting on a show.
15 posted on 06/23/2021 7:52:15 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: crz
Jones was a whack job and why he fit in with the likes of Pelosi and the rest. They will get chummy with anyone who can bring them large numbers of voters.
16 posted on 06/23/2021 7:53:03 PM PDT by caww ( )
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I am surprised Congress hasn’t asked Trump to pay.


17 posted on 06/23/2021 7:59:34 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: FreedomPoster
He studied Marx and was an hard core communist.
He actually met with Mondale who praised him.

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.

18 posted on 06/23/2021 8:50:45 PM PDT by crz
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To: lgjhn23

Can’t blame the Guard. They’re ordinary citizens doing their duty. They were pawns used by Democrats.


19 posted on 06/23/2021 9:07:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: caww

Pretty expensive photo/propaganda op.


20 posted on 06/23/2021 9:25:30 PM PDT by falcon99 (qu)
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