[SauronOfMordor]

NCIS is to investigate crimes by military. This force is for keeping an occupied population under control.

Posse comitatus forbids the Army from being involved in domestic law enforcement. It does not cover Marines. Nor does it cover militarized fed law enforcement.

[I_Publius]

http://www.northcom.mil/About/history_education/posse.html

Posse comitatus act defined.

[NY Attitude]

Posse comitatus forbids the Army from being involved in domestic law enforcement. It does not cover Marines. Nor does it cover militarized fed law enforcement.

Wasn't the 101st Airborne Division used to quell the riots in Watts, CA after the National Guard could not do it? Also, I do believe that General Wesley Clarke and at least 1 tank was used at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.