Homeland Tours: Soldiers in our Streets?

[qwert65]

They're not being deployed for police duty. They wouldn't be deployed to deal with the gang problem in SW Houston. They'd be for catastrophies like the one we're still dealing with down here.

Springmom, it always starts that way, remember ssn were never suppossed to be a national ID#

Once again, If we are going to use the military for this(and I'm sure they are capable) then we can get rid of the other federal entity that's suppossed to take care of it-don't pay taxes for the same thing twice

 

[striker3]

As has already been stated. This really does not change anything. There has always been a federal military response to disasters. The only difference now is that the responding unit has already been identified and will be a lot more coordinated.

There will not be service members stationed throughout the country in all the big cities as some posters seem to fear:

The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga.

 

[Nolo]

The thing is, it's fine to say "the military can help out in a natural disaster".
Yes, they have engineers and hospitals, and yes they could (and are) help out with Ike.
But it is an entirely different thing to have standing armies in our streets for no apparent reason? That, my friends, is the budding flower of tyranny.
This could just fade into memory and then not even that.
Or...
Well, I don't want to think about it.

The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga.

Well, alright, but that's not how it sounded at first read.

 

[Jeff White]

This is a topic for APS, not THR.