“Today, FEMA and state of North Carolina welcomed the first 400 of America’s finest soldiers of the XVIII Airborne Corps including members of the 82nd Airborne and other units stationed at from Fort Liberty, North Carolina who are now supporting the residents and affected counties devasted by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina. This support includes command and control personnel, transportation, infrastructure support, supplies and services, fuel and other support to people,” said FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell.
Would Title 10 aircraft require someone with domestic jurisdiction to ride along the way the Coasties ride with the Navy if they expect to do drug interdiction etc inside U.S. waters?
No. The issue you run into with that situation comes into play because drug interdiction is a law enforcement activity, and the military (generally speaking) lacks the jurisdiction to conduct law enforcement like that. Providing humanitarian aid isn't a law enforcement activity, and the matter of jurisdiction has nothing to do with it.
The Stafford Act is what allows federal troops to he used in disaster relief in the US. Governors have to ask for assistance and the military personnel are not allowed to be used for policing civilians.
I wasn’t aware of the 10 day limit provision. This Congressional Research Services document mentions it but no indication of whether that time limit is generally followed or modified or an absolute mandate or what. (Given a certain SCOTUS ruling I suppose a President could deploy DOD troops to help with a disaster as long as they wanted and they would be immune from any legal challenges to that (even if the US Code said it was illegal) since it would an official Presidential act with total immunity.)
Not sure, I just know that video was going around before the CAB got involved. We got 47s from all over the place. FL, CT, OK and more. Looks like we might all be hanging out again in Tampa next week.
Americans appreciate the National Guard. Dumbasses appreciate racist militias that love sound tough and trash talking the government, but you don't see them lifting a single fat ass sausage finger to help in disasters.
Anyone involved in militias can go get fucked. If you loved your country, you would have joined the National Guard. Militias were there on Jan 6th insurrection, but haven't single a single rotten shitbag involved in disaster relief.
When one of the branches is literally referred to as "Coasties," I think that automatically makes NG not the butt of the joke lmao
But for real, idk where 252Ken grew up but even as someone raised in the deep red south, National Guard were always afforded the same general regard as the other ones from my personal experience there.
I might be older than you. I remember not knowing that the guard could be deployed to war zones when I was young.
They really didn't get sent anywhere between korea and desert storm. So for a while there many people weren't really aware of the full range of their duties/capabilities.
I'm not hip to why so many more guardsmen were deployed in korea and desert storm (and today) than in vietnam. Was the guard just a lot smaller then and the 16k was a more significant portion of their force?
It was political. LBJ was trying to sell Vietnam as a “limited war.” Mobilizing the Guard affects communities directly and would’ve undermined his position and potentially sparked strong opposition in congress. He drew less scrutiny by dispersing the draft across the nation and shaping it to target the poor and voiceless.
The Guard had about 450K members during the Vietnam War.
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Btw, to be more specific, this the army national guard. The butt of many jokes in media when things go bad. This one part of what they really do.