Obama has ordered the Defense Department to confiscate 192 Apaches from National Guard units around the country and give them to the active duty Army – replacing them with transport helicopters.
You remember Obama’s promise to raise an army to protect the homeland that’s just as powerful as the military? Yea, that didn’t include the National Guard.
Apparently these weapons are just too powerful for the National Guard to have. In exchange for the heavily armed and highly maneuverable Apaches, the Guard will receive 111 UH-60 Blackhawk transport helicopters from the Army.
So the administration has purchased 2 billion rounds of ammunition through DHS, has been placing tanks and other war machines into the hands of local law enforcement all over the country, enacted draconian laws like NDAA that strips us of our Constitutional rights, spying on Americans by any means possible, crazy gun control laws are being passed, conservative groups attacked by the IRS and members being declared terrorists…do I have keep going? Is it not obvious where we are headed??
Are you awake yet??? WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
The National Guard is following a direct order — but it’s not happy with it.
All of the Guard’s AH-64 Apache helicopters are scheduled to go to the active Army, and there’s nothing its top brass can do about it.
“None of us like what we’re having to do,” National Guard Chief Gen. Frank Grass told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, the military website Defense One reported. “My big concern right now is figuring out how I’m going to move, and how many states I’m going to have an impact on, and what’s the cost of facilities and to retrain pilots. I’ve got to tackle that because the decision’s been made.”
Air Force Maj. Shannon Thomas, a spokeswoman for the Guard, reiterated the general’s position, the Army Times reported.
“These are very difficult decisions and there will be more difficult ones yet to come,” she said. “His focus now is to determine the impacts and how best to implement the decision.”
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno told members of Congress on Tuesday that the move will save $12 billion through fiscal year 2017, Defense One reported.
When the logistics are worked out, the Army’s fleet of OH-58 Kiowa helicopters will be divested, its newly acquired Apaches will fill its reconnaissance and scouting needs, and the National Guard will be given UH-60 Black Hawks.
Advocates of the Army’s decision say that the Black Hawks actually benefit the Guard because they are an incredible asset for disaster relief efforts.
No one has the guts to remove him. Democrats and Republicans are controlled by the same Corporations.
Obama is afraid of our own national guard, he must want to protect his thugs so he is taking the power away from the national guard, and the states must stop him from taking the helos away fron our national guards.
Don’t worry about it the UH-60 belive it or not is faster an CAN be better armed than the apaches so no real loss.
there better for scouting an more useful elsewhere.
Yep we should have stopped this a long time ago.Will it be to late now i guess we will find out
first, the National Gaud was placed under federal control by Bush jr. Next, the military has so much equipment they do not know what to do with it all and have been actively giving things away to the LOE, which flies in the face of this theory…For the cops would be frontline. Next, the ammo manufactures themselves debunked the claim for billions of rounds of JHP last year, the shortage was caused by consumers not by the government according to ammo manufacturers. There is an propaganda war, a war where the government likes to let these types of unfounded stories go haywire so they can label everyone a “conspiracy nut” to cover up the real criminal actions…It’s called “poisoning the well.” And so far, it’s working marvelously.
That’s illegal as Obama wants to cripple the military and the nation
who are they protecting we the people? wake up america,,,god help us all…
Obama is a traitor
um those apaches are property of the states they were stolen from
I AM WAKING UP TO YOUR` TRAITOROUS SLANDER OF OUR` PRESIDENT !
he’s nuts & out of control !