You know the guard are loving this pointless bullshit. Beats being at their jobs and with families to play fascist theatre for the demented rapist. Isn’t that why anyone signs up?
LOL Trump will send them home in the third week of September, just long enough that they miss the beginning of the college year.
I can’t imagine why anyone with a heart would join, really. I safely assume anyone I see who has joined is a nazi or there for the airline preboard clapping and kudos.
Well they’re not cops. They’re not army. They’re typically deployed in natural disasters or for superbowl-type-crowd control. They have regular 9-5 jobs and go to training once a month or something like that.
When Gee Dubz sent them to Iraq to fight, that was a huge overreach of what the NG is for - and just another in the very long line of outrageous republiQan idiocies that ended up here.
Nah going to Iraq and Afghanistan is part of what the Guard is for. They’re a component of the US Army that is normally controlled by the states, that’s what allows them to be used by state governors for disaster relief. Active component is federally controlled, full time soldiers. Reserves is federally controlled part time soldiers. The National Guard is state and federally controlled part time soldiers.
“National Guard units can be mobilized for federal active duty to supplement regular armed forces during times of war”
Inasmuch as Iraq II was “a war”, yeah. But it wasn’t. Nobody even knows wtf it actually was today other than a trillion dollar misadventure. Unless you subscribe to the “they stole time machine parts out of the Iraqi museum” or similar goofy theories.
It wasn’t a time machine, it was a Stargate.
Right, right.
They are paid by a nation state and have the authority to kill. so. yeah. they’re the same as every other layer even if they mostly do the bitch work locally.
I have experience with plenty of natl guard folk who have wished to deploy to see “the shit” and yet never have so they have become cops and roam cities pretending the locals are guilty before they are innocent. Calling in ICE, jumping for tazers, not focused on community or deescalating.
No. it’s not hyperbole. I can think of at least three people, right now.
Maybe you just know shit heads?
all means all so yeah.
Well that’s a dumb assumption.
howso?
Does this really require a response? If you think people primarily join the service because they’re Nazis or want a pat on the back you’re clearly ignorant. Sure some folks do that, but you’d know if the majority was that way because you’d be dead. Drop you preconceived notions and actually talk to someone that has served and you’ll get a bevy of reasons people join.
i can’t understand why anyone, knowing what america does in this day and age would join unless they are already assholes. how is that confusing to you?
if someone, knowing how bad america is, joins … what impression should that make?
I don’t know what to tell ya, the majority of enlisted are ignorant kids. 90% or so of the total military has never shot at another human. Combat roles only account for 10-20% of the military. But keep on generalizing, that’s the way to a more perfect union for sure.
well generally speaking, they are all working toward a deplorable goal, even the folks cleaning the toilets.
ALL COPS MEANS ALL.
Why are you ok bootlicking for a military that supports breaking peoples constitutional rights, genocide, and war?
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Not that they can’t be, but that’s not my experience. That’d be more like cops.
From this comment I can only infer that you don’t know a single Guardsman personally.
