Posted on 09/28/2008 10:08:19 AM PDT by Oyarsa
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT
The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.
Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.
Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.
It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.
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This is very bad in the wrong hands.
No! No! They’re here to take over NYC and put all Arab-Americans behind barbed-wire like in the Denzel Washington/Bruce Willis vehicle: “The Siege”!!!
To keep the Dim riots in check when McCain wins?
Don’t worry. The government is only here to help! Bush is saving your butt whether you like it or not! /s
Oh shut up...you obviously don’t have a clue.
Hey, someone need to perform crowd control when the run on banks kicks into high gear.
ping
Obviously.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092110/posts
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
This comes weeks after US Govt issued a call for all its agencies to write or update succcession plans to ensure operations.
And while agencies are really noting al Qaeda patterns of activity that predated other big attacks
Not that I am wearing a tin foil hat...
Some would say that comment is humor.
I won’t.
Oh no, to keep the Wall Street CEO rioters in check if no bail out plan by 1 October...
I don’t think this is a good precedent, but it is possible that it is because of the chance of a major terrorist attack around the time of the elections. There have been a number of significant arrests and also strange events (sudden shut downs of Pakistan and British airports, for example) that make me think that there is something brewing. I don’t think the terrorists have a very good chance of pulling it off, but I suspect these units are going to be on hand just in case.
Owned. That was hilarious.
We need the military at home to protect our borders and deport the hordes of illegal aliens/invaders who roam across the country and kill a shocking number of Americans as well as drain our resources.
A more accurate answer might be: This story began circulation about 2 weeks ago in a publication written, edited, and controlled by a 9/11 “Troofer” from California,who writes long, alarming stories every few days-backing them up by referring to other stories he has published in another online newspaper-which he controls.
As nearly as I can figure,one of his goals is to sell off a batch of surplus WWII-era Swiss carbines to militia wannabees,by convincing them the Day of Revolution is close at hand.
He lards his stories with just barely enough fact to make them look plausable; and, after 2 or 3 people begin circulating them (as in the example shown)a few folks start believing they are “getting the inside story”.
Be careful; the other side of the coin is that the same military can be used to confiscate guns, force citizens from their homes, etc.
It happened in New Orleans, it will happen again. Be careful what—and whom—you support.
I wasn’t aware that “armytimes.com” (the original source for the story I provided) was a “troofer” site.
There may well be other versions of the story, but what evidence do you have that the version I provided was written by a 9/11 “troofer”?
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