Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

[unhappycamper]

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

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.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/%2e

[formercia]

1. Training them over there so they can be used here

against their own people.

Seig Heil.

When the national Guard just isn't enough.

[DCKit]

2. Isn't that illegal? n/t

[peace13]

3. It was before * took over the country.

New laws that do not follow the Constitution make this possible. EKK!

[lynnertic]

4. It actually may not be legal. From the great oracle Wikipedia:

HR5122 also known as the John Warner Defense Authorization Act was signed by the president on Oct 17, 2006

John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Section 1076 Text of Hr5122 is titled "Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies". Removing the legalese from the text, and combining multiple sentences, it provides that:

The President may employ the armed forces to restore public order in any State of the United States the President determines hinders the execution of laws or deprives people of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.

The actual text is on page 322-323 of the legislation.

As of 2008, these changes were repealed, changing the text of the law back to the original 1807 wording, under Public Law 110-181 (H.R. 4986, Section 1068)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act#Recent_legislative_events

[formercia]

5. Trigger-happy Gis right from combat duty

just the thing for peaceful civil demonstrations.