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.
Maybe he read the latest issue of “Revolution Today” magazine?
Why so he can sell them to other nations or use them on us?
I guess he’s about ready to get the party started. I look to see a horrific event any day now that he can blame on domestic terrorist. It’s their favorite tactic.
THERE ARE SOME OF THAT NO WHERE TO HIT THESE HELICOPTERS AND BRING THEM DOWN. SO SORRY.
Take away the National Guard and we have no way to protect ourselves through our states. The Federal Military will have no competition when Obama decides to try to take down every white gun toting American. This seems to be what he is preaching and doing. And the White people are the racist here in America. Well, Right now, I beg to differ..
obama is going to be the first target to be taken out when this war starts and nothing will stop it from happening
We don’t stand a chance since so many let col Riley down. I’m 74 with cancer and arthritis in my spine and I couldn’t go I would have been a liability not an asset. I did stay on the computer trying to get the word out. I think so many people were still in the dark. All these people that made fun of it being a dud without knowing why will one day wish they had partisipated in oas. And helped make the difference the Col. was trying to make. May God have mercery on their souls when they take the chip and see which wrong turn they made.
That’s why they are keeping everyone so broke that we can not afford to do anything.
The US will become a police state.
this is really quite silly. The states do not buy weapons for the national guard…the US government does…and the US active military distributes those weapons as it needs to in terms of Guard use. the Guards dont have “their own equipment” it is all US government bought and owned…
The attack helicopters are going away because the Guards who were deployed using them were near useless. this is just more scare tactics.
I spent three years in Anbar. you dont know what you are talking about RGO
lmao at rightwing nutjobs…….
sounds like a wise move to save money……why buy more…..isnt that what you reichwing fruitcakes want….less spending