Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
Operation Dessert Storm
The Green Buffets
Meal Team Six
Pretty sure they were already failing to meet standards when the tax payer flew them up there for no reason to begin with. Could have saved a lot of transport dollars with a preflight check in. Hell, a zoom call would have outed some of them!
These guys? They look like troops, not generals. Don't recall ever seeing Schwarzkopf carrying an assault rifle.
I'm not pleased they're being deployed, but these guys aren't choosing to go to these places. They signed up for national defense (and not the kind that blows up schools in a desert on the other side of the world) and often helping with major disasters.
The Texas National Guard absolutely did not sign up for policing cities in Illinois or Oregon, and I'd bet vast majority are not pleased to be there.
Then fucking quit or refuse the orders.
They can't just quit. They're under a signed contract, which can be penalized with jail time if breached. Refusing orders is also not as simple as it sounds. Each soldier has a duty to refuse an unlawful order. However, if you disobey a direct order, and it is later determined to have been a lawful one, you will now be punished for failing to obey orders, might be a slap on the wrist, might be a dishonorable discharge, or could even be a court martial with jail time.
That seems like an easy thing until you consider:
The ranks of the JAG and military judges hasn't been purged yet, so I believe it is very inlikely that a court-marshal would reach this punishment, but these orders aren't something a Soldier can just walk away from without serious legal and financial repurcussions.
What they do in Chicago matters far more than their presence there. Every Soldier needs to recognize their ultimate purpose is to defend the freedom and liberty of their nation's citizens. They must have a line in the sand that they will refuse to cross and are willing to die for, but simply deploying to a city to stand outside a federal building is not that line.
Yeah, they are "just following orders".
What, not fascist enough?
Fucking traitors.
Report just came out that pete is starting to get Botox. Let that sink in on the level we are at.
The military is a pageant?
They're classified as armored vehicles when fully equipped.
It's weird how for a fat guy, Taco doesn't like fatties.
Call of Gravy
What standard? Did they fail to correctly identify and laugh at incel memes?
These guys aren't ICE. They didn't volunteer for this bullshit. Guard members are mostly people wanting some extra cash to pay for college and shit that signed up to go to training a couple weeks a year and to help out following a flood or wildfire.
They did not sign up to occupy other states. But now they potentially face the death penalty for refusing to go.
Yeah, they can refuse illegal orders, but with so many Courts having been taken over by the fascists, they can't depend on that to save them from the firing squad. So they suit up and go stand around for a few weeks. I'd honestly rather have them than ICE, since they aren't guaranteed to be racist piles of shit.
I don't know. Considering that these guys feel through the cracks and failed to meet the expected height, weight and fitness and were deployed, I do question the quality assurance process and the competence at the top level.
National Lard
Blart just needed to get back to the mall before the holiday season starts.
Wasn't he the protagonist in that movie
This is the heel turn arc
Does the US National Guard not have fitness requirements? Because I doubt those guys can run or do a pull up.
Yes, but they sure don't have qualified recruits anymore.
You don't pass your PT tests, no benefits, but you don't get to go "oops I quit" either. So you wind up with situations like this - even unfit soldiers can't be replaced these days
Forever stuck as a pfc
Yes, but they sure don't have qualified recruits anymore.
Perhaps because you would have to be pants-on-head stupid to sign up to shoot your fellow countrymen. In the span of a few months the Trump administration has completely ruined the reputation of what used to be a universally noble and respected job.
Lmao they all look like Shane Gillis.
Which standards? Were they not racist enough?
But Call of Duty told ME that the National Guards are forces to be reckoned with because they're fit and can take Burgertown from the Russians! Are you saying they lied?!
In all seriousness, however, a US general's concern was correct that America is too ill-prepared for a war, precisely because most Americans are ill-fitting.
It's a problem but also a lot of war is fought with a controller now. It's not as dire as it would have been 60 years ago.
They gunna have fun come winter
Here's hoping the polar vortex does its thing during one of these deployments
Tankers
I see General Custard in that photo
What are the machine guns for? They can't find the right tool for the job?
They're southern, so Gravy Seals is a good fit.
Y'all qaeda
Considering their obvious weakness for truck stop cheese, I prefer "Y'all Queso"