You dolts realize that they're not deploying Infantry or Armor or Artillery units, right? They're taking 68W's (medics) and other medical laboratory specialty MOS's and they're using volunteers first. That's how this works. The Governor asks the State National Guard for a small force of 60 or 70 troops, and asks for volunteers first, which they usually find with part-time college students who don't make a lot of money and can make some extra $$$ by doing more duty days while the Army feeds and shelters them.
You dolts realize that they're not deploying Infantry or Armor or Artillery units,
Not yet.
But that takes what, a day or two? Tell me, I want to know.
They're taking 68W's (medics) and other medical laboratory specialty MOS's and they're using volunteers first.
Isn't the National Guard all volunteer by definition?
It's an all volunteer force that is required to perform 48 MUTA periods and 2 weeks of Annual Training per calendar year. Any additional dates are either completed by an actual order (meaning: Commander at whichever level orders National Guardsmen to service to complete 'X' mission), or they're completed by Soldiers who volunteer.
For something like this, I can guarantee you 95% of the Soldiers performing these missions are there because they need/want the extra money. The State probably sent out a mission request to their subordinate commands, directing Commanders to ask "who wants to make some extra money? We've got some optional orders to work in hospitals if anyone wants them"
Thank you Pig_Newtons for adding balance to the post.
2 weeks of Annual Training per calendar year.
Seems pretty low. I thought it was was weekend a month?
I can guarantee you 95% of the Soldiers performing these missions are there because they need/want the extra money
I'm not impinging their honor, or suggesting "they're all in on it man!". In fact I doubt they have any idea why they are there, supposing I'm correct about the regime's plans.
I'm suggesting they are being prepositioned either to be used as targets, to to be tricked, like in Kent state, into firing on the public or committing actions that can be carefully edited in video after the fact to portray the guardsmen as monsters.
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