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Well, I didn’t mention Bonus Marchers, but it’s certainly interesting.

Regarding training, I suppose it has the potential of being beneficial, but is it actually efficacious in the soldier’s decision process? I’ve had training in bomb deactivation and disposal (no kidding). It lasted all of about an hour. Would I say that I’m qualified to go around deactivating bombs and disposing of them?

No!

There is training, and there is TRAINING. Whether your information should reassure me depends, to a great extent on the quality of said training. Since you brought it up, tell me how comfortable you are re. the quality of training on this subject (No, not bomb deactivation and disposal! You know what I mean.).

I'm not sure they are trained in Constitutional law as well as you think.

'Question 46,' Revisited
However, the study did suggest the existence of a sizable pool of military personnel willing to carry out that mission. In that particular group, 79 Marines – a little more than a quarter of those surveyed – replied to Question 46 in the affirmative, a response Cunningham said "showed an alarming ignorance of the Posse Comitatus Act ... and of how to treat an unlawful order."
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In September 2006, - on the same day the Bush Regime effectively dismantled the habeas corpus guarantee, it inflicted what may be lethal injury to the Posse Comitatus Act as well by providing the president with the means to make the National Guard units of all 50 states into his personal army, to be deployed domestically in any way he sees fit. At least three combat brigades are now assigned to domestic duty as a homeland security force under Northern Command.
Those troops would supposedly be used for the sole purpose of dealing with catastrophic events, such as terrorism involving the use of non-conventional weapons; however, the initial report indicated that these combat veterans, during their domestic deployment, would be equipped and trained to deal with crowd control and other population management tasks. This is why the unit would be outfitted with "non-lethal" weaponry, in addition to the conventional variety.