For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit for full-time use inside the United States to deal with emergencies, including potential civil unrest.Well... ( see also Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 )
Beginning on October 1, the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division will be placed under the command of US Army North, the Army’s component of the Pentagon’s Northern Command (NorthCom), which was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with the stated mission of defending the US “homeland” and aiding federal, state and local authorities.
The unit—known as the “Raiders”—is among the Army’s most “blooded.” It has spent nearly three out of the last five years deployed in Iraq, leading the assault on Baghdad in 2003 and carrying out house-to-house combat in the suppression of resistance in the city of Ramadi. It was the first brigade combat team to be sent to Iraq three times.
While active-duty units previously have been used in temporary assignments, such as the combat-equipped troops deployed in New Orleans, which was effectively placed under martial law in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this marks the first time that an Army combat unit has been given a dedicated assignment in which US soil constitutes its “battle zone.”
[ cf Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest ]
It is so much nicer to know that the Fed's are willing to give something back, now that the National Guard Units have been so gutted, that they have to turn to Kid Rock to pimp for them...
But clearly you should feel safe. They are our Federal Troops... just like the Serbian Federal Forces came to help make Sarajevo after the social disturbances caused by the Muslim Extremists and dangerous radical left wing extremists who beliedved that the law took precedence.
Trust them....
Think of how much fun the economic new world order will be.....
It is what the troops are fighting for.....