3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team to Begin US Tour of Duty
Posted by: admin in Police State, tags: 1st Brigade Combat TeamPosse Comitatus you say? Well, from the Wiki we learn the following:
- On September 26, 2006, President Bush urged Congress to consider revising federal laws so that the U.S. military could seize control immediately in the aftermath of a natural disaster, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. These changes were repealed in their entirety in 2008.
- In early 2006, the 109th Congress passed a bill containing controversial provisions that granted the President additional rights to use federal or state National Guard Troops inside the United States in emergency situations. These changes were included in the John Warner Defense Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122.ENR) These changes were repealed in their entirety in 2008.
- Footnote: All changes have been repealed, and have changed back to the original state of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
Source: Army Times
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Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.
But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.
“Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,” said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. “Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.”
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., where they’ll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones.
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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.
“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”).
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They’re being trained in the use of a new modular package “Non Lethal Weapons” so they can help hurricane or terror attack victims? Help them how, exactly, with “Non Lethal” weapons?
Yea Tampa Dave, I thought the same thing when I read the article. Riot control is the first thing that comes to mind, and would be especially necessary if the average population is too ignorant to understand the military concept of “help.”
Whenever we have a disaster of some type the Govt’s main concern is simply money; Take a look at their concerns, for example, about a bird flu pandemic. Regardless of what it’s public oriented websites say about it, the Gov’t true concerns are purely a matter of economics and the health and welfare of the people are only significant to the degree that they fulfill the role of “human capital.” Beyond that, the people, the citizens, are completely expendable if not a downright threat.
Around here, the police do not patrol residential neighborhoods anymore. You will not find them slowly cruising residential streets at 2am, keeping a watchful eye on the quietly sleeping, law abiding citizens and attempting to protect them from burgulars and midnight rapists…no. You will usually find law enforcement patrolling the centers of commerce, ie. the malls, stores, and places of business, of industry….you will find them where the money is.
Likewise, in the event of some form of disaster, and the subsequent use of military force, you would expect to find the military doing the exact same thing…protecting the money. And in that case you can also see exactly why non-lethal weaponry is a factor….they will need to protect the money, the assets, from the people themselves.
Sounds much like the Gestapo to me. Also reply to the admin. I agree with the “they are where the money is.” Our society needs to progress beyond a monetary based system. The way the banks control the government and the way the government is working to control us is sickening. What ever happened to freedom and power of the people by the people?
Welcome to 1930’s germany. This is an illegal act under the constitution. The military is absolutely not supposed to be uesd in our country on us for ANY reason. These people must be stopped before we are all enslaved. Just read “1984″ or “Animal Farm” of “A Brave new World” and you can see where we are headed.
WAKE UP YOU STUPID FAT IGNORANT LAZY BASTARDS!!!!!!! AKA: AVERAGE AMERICAN
bring back the cold war, this is gettin scary>