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Massachusetts activates National Guard to mitigate school bus driver shortage
Washington Examiner ^ | 13 September 2021 | Misty Severi, Breaking News Reporter

Posted on 09/13/2021 10:02:10 PM PDT by blueplum

The Massachusetts National Guard was activated to help communities with student transportation as the state contends with a shortage of bus drivers at the start of the school year.

An order from Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday provides up to 250 personnel to assist local communities with training starting Tuesday for 90 members in several cities. The decision comes as states across the country deal with shortages of drivers...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: busdrivers; charliebaker; nationalguard; schoolbus
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1 posted on 09/13/2021 10:02:10 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Insanity


2 posted on 09/13/2021 10:02:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: blueplum

I thought the National Guard was busy being nurses in all the overwhelmed covid critical care ICU’s? At least that’s what we were told?


3 posted on 09/13/2021 10:04:19 PM PDT by blackdog (Sophisticated so public policy is not applicable. )
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To: blueplum

This bus driver shortage must be big in much of the nation. I know it’s a big problem in much of Maryland.


4 posted on 09/13/2021 10:05:03 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: BenLurkin

I remember someone once saying you reap what you sow.


5 posted on 09/13/2021 10:07:40 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: BenLurkin

I want to see bus cam footage when the disrespectful little hellions get the drill Sargent treatment.


6 posted on 09/13/2021 10:10:57 PM PDT by Rebelbase (The difference between animals and humans: animals would never let the dumbest of the herd lead them)
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To: blueplum

Its really a great advert to join the National Guard.

Join the National Guard - become the Governor’s Political Servant Bitch!


7 posted on 09/13/2021 10:13:15 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Rebelbase

lol - me 2 !


8 posted on 09/13/2021 10:14:55 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: BenLurkin
Nope.

Part of a pretty clever plan.

Kids get accostomed to seeing a military uniform every day.

How about THIS one chattering to your third grader every morning and afternoon?

9 posted on 09/13/2021 10:14:56 PM PDT by knarf
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To: blueplum; Rebelbase

That would make a hilarious meme.


10 posted on 09/13/2021 10:20:23 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: blueplum

Is the shortage due to a vax requirement for drivers?


11 posted on 09/13/2021 10:23:28 PM PDT by Neanderthal (The Devil walks with Democrats)
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To: Neanderthal

The article says, yes.


12 posted on 09/13/2021 10:41:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
Why train the guard members to drive school busses?

The guard has deuce and a halfs and 5 tons with troop seats and APCs (armored personnel crriers) for rough neighborhoods, etc.

13 posted on 09/13/2021 10:45:45 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: blueplum

This is another example of the left subverting something for their own cause, as they and their Chinese puppet masters created this entire virus situation which lead to everything else, including THIS. Everything old and communist is new and communist under O’Biden. I read an article over at CanadaFreePress on how, “Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Dead Copycat of ObamaCare”, so give that a look. This was never about health, and always about control over you for leftists. National Guard are not supposed to be driving MF’ing school buses unless an invading army is after the kids.


14 posted on 09/13/2021 11:09:35 PM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: blackdog

As Rush Limbaugh used to say, the military’s job is to “kill people and break things”. Unless they are driving these school buses into walls they aren’t doing either.


15 posted on 09/13/2021 11:10:57 PM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: PGR88

It’s a joke. Nobody joins the military to be demeaned by politicians.


16 posted on 09/13/2021 11:11:55 PM PDT by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: knarf
Nope. Part of a pretty clever plan. Kids get accostomed to seeing a military uniform every day.

Very interesting point. That, plus you have Guard prepositioned and ready to carry out any other nefarious plot.

17 posted on 09/13/2021 11:19:14 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: blackdog

My wife is an RN in a hospital.

The National Guard are doing menial tasks like picking up soiled sheets and picking up trash where she works.


18 posted on 09/14/2021 12:01:42 AM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: blueplum
When I think of the National Guard, this is who I see:

And when I think of a disaster, this is how I see myself:


19 posted on 09/14/2021 12:31:07 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: blueplum

I always wanted to ride to school in the back of a deuce and a half.


20 posted on 09/14/2021 2:33:13 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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