Posted on 09/28/2008 10:08:19 AM PDT by Oyarsa
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantrys 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 Divisions 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 theyre 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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Did you outlaw martial law also?
I read the original story from the September 8, 2008 edition of the Army Times.
LOLOLOL - I didn’t click the link till I saw your comment.
That was HILLARIOUS!
He makes perfect sense...
The US Constitution was killed by King Abe...
What happened to Posse Comitatus????????
Keep the military OUT of domestic areas. PERIOD.
I love that clip.
Tatt
Me too.
I do believe I read something in NAFTA about the use of military to enforce the terms of the agreement. According to everything I’ve read coming out of Mexico and Canada they consider this a signed agreement and totally enforceable. Just suggesting perhaps another twist. Who really knows how many more issues may come into play before the year is over. We may be forced to react and marshall the good guys again and again, and react rather than act. Kind of like Congress and their immigration bills - they just don’t go away. NP and HR seem to always find a way to repackage the same old crap disguised in a yet different manner.
Yes, Reagan does make perfect sense. And if you’re also a Bush basher I say to you what I said to him...
“Deploying the military is not a new practice in American history. Its been done often.”
National Guard units under state control, yes. Active duty units, not so often.
Is “homeland” anything like “Fatherland?”
Actually, based in Ft. Stewart, GA.
It must be genetic or maybe a New World Order thing. Bush I deployed Army and Marine regulars along with the National Guard in the Rodney King riots. Bush II is going to make it a standard operating procedure?
Hard not to be a Bush basher, he’s been the best thing for the Democrats since...Franklin Roosevelt. We have lost:
1) Our party’s preference for peace (not Bob Dole’s line about Democrats and war)
2) Our party’s reputation for fiscal prudence
3) Our control of the House and Senate.
4) Our party’s position that ‘nation building’ is not the job of the US.
Facts are difficult things to face up to.
Why don’t you list what clintoon or kennedy did to this nation....far worst...go take your garbage else where...
I’m not talking about Democrats; I don’t expect them to do the right thing. But I do expect more of Republicans.
If you can’t deal with the substance of a post, better to just leave it alone. For the Republic and Republicans, Bush has been a disaster. What do you think a veto proof Senate w/ a far-left President means for Freedom?
Preparing for post-election insurrection?
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