Local Troops Deploy To Nation's Capital

[seemslikeadream]

I believe I saw this talked about but I can't find the thread, can some one point me to it please?


http://www.wesh.com/news/13949580/detail.html

Local Troops Deploy To Nation's Capital

POSTED: 12:20 pm EDT August 22, 2007
UPDATED: 11:54 am EDT August 24, 2007


DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Members of the 1st Battalion 265 Air Defense Artillery have mobilized and are on a plane headed first to Ft. Bliss, then for federal active duty in the capital region.

The troops will be deployed for a year.

"It's going to be all right It's OK if he helps people and everything, and it's his job. He’s got to do it. He just got to do it," Jessica Ward said, whose father is being deployed.


Jessica speaks for many when she talks about her father's deployment.

Michael Ward and company are leaving for a year, and that weighs heavy on families.

The 265th is part of Operation Noble Eagle.

They are ordered by the president to the nation's capital, where they will operate high-tech weapons systems against any potential air threat.

Yolanda McCormack is relieved husband Charles isn't headed to Iraq, but there is always a risk.

"Doesn't mean he won't be in the line of fire in Washington, D.C., but it does give me a little comfort," Yolanda McCormack said, whose husband is being deployed.

Families may get one or two opportunities to see loved ones during this year-long deployment, but it’s not encouraged. Though the solders are staying in the states, they are on serious business.

Staff Sgt. James Todd said duty at home is just as important as the mission overseas

[LiberalEsto]

1. I suppose this means

They'll be bashing us on the head at the next big protest march.

[seemslikeadream]

2. oh that's right

The 9/11 protest!!

[LiberalEsto]

5. Or maybe to enforce martial law

for when Georgie crowns himself emperor and officially wipes his butt with the Constitution

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Or a normal rotation in the air defense system for the

capital?

Nah, that could not be...

[UncleSepp]

19. Perhaps if the protest march is held several thousand feet up?

;-) I'm just teasing. I'd keep your eye on the military police types for such an action, not an ADA battalion.

[daninthemoon]

3. There is always an air defense for DC. It may not usually be

reservists, but I don't think there is any sinister meaning to this.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Right. Why don't they just station a naval ship or two in the Potomac? Norfolks ships...

could take turns.

[Benhurst]

9. Yeah, I always thought there were air defenses for Washington, D.C., too,

until 9/11. Just where were they then?

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Standing down on orders

where was NORAD? Standing down, or in the middle of an exercise that looked just like the attack

But DC has troops regularly, has had them since oh WW I

[Benhurst]

22. And who gave the orders to stand down? Treason most foul.

[havocmom]

4. Edited: found it and another one that makes ya go Hmmm when ya put them together

troops

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1650150

highway gates in VA

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1651590

[Catchawave]

14. Those "highway gates" are for hurricane evacuation....

No conspiracy theory there :D

[havocmom]

23. One would think you'd see more of them in more likely target zones

They have them in WY also, but that is to keep fools from dying alone in blizzards when the state troopers won't even go out. My managed to get on a road when the barrier arm didn't close down. She drove quite some distance in her little mustang before a trooper saw her from a bridge and signaled for her to get off the highway. She wondered why she hadn't seen any other cars...

[warren pease]

26. Are hurricanes expected to hit that area anytime in the near future? n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. Here's that thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1650150&mesg_id=1650150

Am more of a mind that since this the Air Defense Artillery that's being deployed there, that there may be a LIHOP or MIHOP in progress to further their fascist cause for pre-emptive strike on Iran.

"Rally the American citizens! Make War For Global Domination!"

That's pretty much the message these thugs have been putting out since the inception of the PNAC.

[seemslikeadream]

8. Thanks you guys

:hi:

[Double T]

10. Looks like bushco is preparing to institute MARTIAL LAW...........

instead of a NEW MARSHALL PLAN for Iraq.:evilgrin:

[MisterHowdy]

11. The 9/11 protests maybe?

or maybe something bigger

[Blackhatjack]

12. Could they be expecting retaliatory attack on D.C.?? If so, why??

[merh]

13. Haven't Russia and China warned us that they oppose our

plans to invade Iran?

:scared:

Edited to add: Does this mean that our military is stretched so thin and so poorly funded that we don't have the military might that conservatives believe we have?

:scared:

[Selatius]

18. I don't think the Russians will decapitate our leadership with a strike on DC if war happens

More likely, the Russians would simply send arms covertly to the Iranians who would be fighting a desperate battle against US air power and what few ground forces the US has available.

[angrycarpenter]

15. propaganda

The sight of these large pieces of weaponry around the capital will add to the illusion that there is a real threat from large scale terrorism here. just in time for congress to come back and argue over the war.

[merh]

16. I think you are right.

I pray you are, that it is just their PR/fear mongering/war on terra stunt.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[havocmom]

24. Normally, I would agree, but cheney is in a corner and Congress is a threat to him

There have been some changes in many states re how to replace Congressmen and Senators, along with all the special powers in case of emergency for the Executive Branch.

I do not expect cheney to go peacefully when they finally come to arrest his sorry ass. Nor do I put ANYTHING beyond his capabilities. He has no inhibitions about hurting others. Congress gutted would suit his purposes and survival and THAT worries me a good deal.

[appleannie1]

21. Gov Agencies Now Moved Outside D.C.'s Fallout Zone

Winchester and its neighbors along Interstate 81 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley have much to recommend themselves to potential employers, including a low cost of living, access to a major highway and views of the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains.

More recently, though, the area has been successfully trumpeting another attribute: It is just outside the "blast zone."



Development is booming along Interstate 81 near Winchester, Va., as federal agencies move to relocate offices. (By Scott Mason For The Washington Post)


In a little-noticed migration with implications for both greater Washington and the valley, several federal agencies, including the FBI, are relocating operations to the I-81 corridor. Helping drive the shift is the government's emphasis on security in a post-Sept. 11 world, which turns Winchester's location 75 miles from Washington into a geographic ideal. It is far enough from the capital to escape the fallout of a nuclear explosion -- a distance often estimated at 50 miles -- but still close enough so that employees can get to the District relatively easily when they need to.
The moves represent a level of dispersal even beyond other recently announced federal moves, including the military's planned relocation of 22,000 jobs from the District and inner suburbs to Fort Belvoir in southern Fairfax County and the FBI's relocation of its Northern Virginia field office from Tysons Corner to Manassas.

Leading the shift is the FBI, which chose Winchester over other towns of similar distance from the District as the site for a big centralized archive that by 2009 will employ at least 1,200 people, many of them now working in Washington and Baltimore. Some employees already are working in a temporary facility outside Winchester, a nondescript building that used to hold a printing firm and is now studded with security cameras and bollards.

FEMA has chosen a farm just outside town for an operations center that will employ 700 people.
Department of Homeland Security is looking for space around Harrisonburg, farther south along I-81. Activity is also picking up north along the corridor. Outside Martinsburg, W.Va., the Coast Guard is building a new National Maritime Center, a 200-person office now in Arlington. In Washington County, Md., near Hagerstown, the government is redeveloping the vacant Fort Ritchie to house unnamed intelligence agencies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500637.html

[lovuian]

25. Spreading out so if DC is closed down by dirty bomb

things can go on

but Congress will be shut down Supreme court closed down and only Executive Branch rules

its coming ...it makes sense if Bush & Cheney have gone this far why not
it will come as a national emergency
911 was a test run