[ProtectOurFreedom]

Unbelievable! Going into this maelstrom unarmed. PC is going to get some of our paratroopers killed.

Notice the front line in the photo above (file photo from the article). Two of the paratroopers are not like the other two. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Also odd -- why are the two big paratroopers carrying bottles of wine?

[Mariner]

The designation of antifa as a terrorist organization will change this deployment to armed.

[A Navy Vet]

If this regular Army, they are not permitted to operate on American soil. If National Guard, a okay.

[lgjhn23]

They’re going to give emotional support and to help hand out meals to the rioters? /s

[DoodleDawg]

Unbelievable! Going into this maelstrom unarmed.

They're not going anywhere. They can't be deployed unless the governor requests federal troops and he isn't going to.

[taxcontrol]

Time for “a whiff of the grape.”

[Revel]

They should refuse to go if they are not allowed to defend themselves or anyone else.

[A Navy Vet]

"Two of the paratroopers are not like the other two. Can't quite put my finger on it."

I'll say it, short-shit dykes. Don't see any wine bottles.

[Carriage Hill]

” The soldiers have been told to not bring their weapons with them on this potential mission.”

Without weapons, they are targets.

[blueunicorn6]

I don’t think they’re marching to the aircraft.

My guess would be Volksmarch.

[Carriage Hill]

Maybe it’s going to be a “wine summit”?

[Chode]

aren't the little chucklets cute... how would you like to have to depend on them when the SHTF???

[OKSooner]

Maybe they’re gonna be issued shotguns or other weapons appropriate to the job of quelling a violent insurrection.

Or, maybe this is the company that operates the Area Denial Systems.

Just speculating...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Also odd -- why are the two big paratroopers carrying bottles of wine?

The day the picture was shot happened to be "mandatory champagne cork popping safety training" day. I was a contract employee for the military for twenty years. I know how these things work.

[Logical me]

We are at war with terrorists within America. Who is the damn fool to order American troops into a war zone without weapons. Hope Trump is not giving the order. If so, I am done. Setting up our military as unarmed targets, damn am I mad.

[Truthoverpower]

For the most part , these rioters are mostly young and stupid. No purpose. and they are not working arms to these events

Does that have a know how to operate arms,they know that would be a fatal mistake

You never ever ever see these looters and thugs armed never

[Cobra64]

If you want to stop this crap, if it were up to me, I’d have had a few dozen Humvees and a thousand soldiers in battle gear knocking heads and breaking “terrorist” (Trump’s term) body parts through these cities. Every soldier would zip tie the violent scum for handoff to the local boys in blue.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

12 times the president called in the military domestically, by Jonathon Berlin and Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, January 27, 2017.

1. 1957-58. Desegregation of Little Rock school
2. 1962. Integration of University of Mississippi
3. 1963. Integration of University of Alabama
4. 1963. Integration of Alabama schools
5. 1965. Selma, Montgomery civil rights march
6. 1967. Detroit riots
7. 1968. Chicago riots following assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
8. 1968. Washington riots following King's murder
9. 1968. Baltimore riots following King's murder
10. 1970. New York City postal strike
11. 1989. Looting after Hurricane Hugo
12. 1992. Riots after Rodney King verdict

[Roklok]

The commanding General should say , my troopers are not going without their weapons.

[momincombatboots]

Agreed. These guys can’t even defend themselves in an active war zone. Now they will be targets, our sons and daughters. Ridiculous. Posse cmmitatus is dead. Next they will be door to door with gates frankenvax.

[NFHale]

My old man, Airborne, WWII, twice wounded in combat, would look at that picture and have quite a lot to say...

... ESPECIALLY the part about not bringing weapons... and the two broads...