Military Patrolling Streets of U.S.

Military Patrolling Streets of U.S.

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They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

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So according to this article the military is going to start patrolling streets of the US. Meaning they now become the police of the country. Which last I checked was against the constitution.

I can see for natural disasters the National Gaurd, but an actually military rank...



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Military Patrolling Streets of U.S.

Maybe they know WW3 will start soon, and so they are prepareing.

I cant get my head around all this activity that I keep reading about. Its like they know something is going to happen and they are getting ready for it. I mean what could happen, Bush decides he want to stop the elections with his 'supposed' power to be able to do this and he's getting ready for the civil unrest that will result. The more I read the more I worry tbh. I am not sure what's going on but I cant help but think its going to be something big. Then again we are not seeing anything like this here in the UK, well not yet anyway.

Maybe they know WW3 will start soon, and so they are prepareing.

...or maybe the government just hates the idea that you have the right and freedom to object to the governments decisions.

... well, at least you used to.

[edit on 24-9-2008 by johnsky]

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking we were the first to get it.”

The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

“I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body.

“I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds ... it put me on my knees in seconds.”

The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”).

“I can’t think of a more noble mission than this,” said Cloutier, who took command in July. “We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home ... and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.”

While soldiers’ combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances don’t apply.

“If we go in, we’re going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so it’s kind of a different role,” said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq.

The Article goes on. Boys, we're bringing the war into U.S. soil.

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