U.S. Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations
Democracynow.org
22-Sep-2008 (one comment)

Beginning in October, the Army plans to station an active unit inside the United States for the first time to serve as an on-call federal response in times of emergency. The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent thirty-five of the last sixty months in Iraq, but now the unit is training for domestic operations. The unit will soon be under the day-to-day control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. The Army Times reports this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to Northern Command. The paper says the Army unit may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control. The soldiers are learning to use so-called nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals and crowds.

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Jaleho

AMAZING NEWS

by Jaleho on

If they really thinking that the financial meltdown might get to a civil unrest by October.

 

But, my guess is that they have to absorb the flood of those coming back from Iraq with some kind of a job, that is, soft landing of the large number of unemployed  whose former training was killing natives of a country half a globe away!

In other words, my optimistic side translates this news instead of a bad civil unrest emergency, as the opposite: MORE troops than we think will soon get relieved from Iraq duty!