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 it’s all true, Obama has ordered the operators of Area 51 to recruit aliens that look like real people to sneak into people’s homes and teleport their guns to the White House. As far as the Apache gunships go…they are the preferred helicopter of rescue pilots during a disaster…imagine how much better off New Orleans would have been had Apaches been flying over the city. They could have used the massive chain gun to poke holes in the hurricane..problem solved.
He forgot about the Second Amendment again. Although it is a complex sentence He has not figured out the commas yet.
I thought that Obama taught Constitutional law as a professor?
What the heck does the National Guard need attack helicopters for? Who is going to get close enough to the USA to launch a military strike? Black Hawks are much more suited for the National Guard who are usually mobilized in times of disaster and need supplies and people moved not air to ground missiles and helmet guided rapid firing machine guns and carries no one but the crew.
I guess you don’t realize that the National Guard has been a major part of the fighting force in the past 12 years in Afghanistan and Iraq and they use their own equipment much of the time. Are you really so foolish to think all they do is respond to natural disasters? Try telling that to the six men who died in six weeks in Iraq following Obama’s new ROE routing them off protectable routes and through unsafe terrain because we need to win hearts and minds of villagers by not raising dust in their villages when the convoys roll through. All National Guard members.
You asked the question who is going to get close enough to the United States for lunch attack. my friend I have an answer for you. United Nations troops.
There are foreign Subs within our waters at any given time.
Our own government is gearing up for its own version of Red Dawn.
Hopefully the pilots love America and will confiscate the helicopters to protect Americans rather than support a Dictator
They will all cave in to the money and the fact that Apaches are much less useful to a governor than transport UH-60s or CH-47s.
part of the plan…..B|
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