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Washington Time Link Active-duty U.S. troops are on “short alert status” at bases outside the District of Columbia, Pentagon officials said Tuesday, but so far forces have not mobilized in any other region of the country following President Trump’s threat to use the full weight of the American military to quell riots and violent protests.
originally posted by: Arnie123
Fear mongering, inconjunction with your little blurb of "Bayonets" which make no mention in the article.
700 paratroopers ‘issued bayonets’ as 82nd Airborne prepares to carry out ‘Operation Themis’ at #DCprotests: report
Published 12 hours ago on June 2, 2020
They also were issued bayonets—standard issue but some feel could be inflammatory,” he explained. “Some context: they were issued to the members of the 82nd deploying to Washington, D.C. – they were told to pack them in their backpacks. Members I spoke said bayonets are always on their packing list but given the context of the protests, it could be perceived in a bad light.”
it isn't in the OP, but cause you saw it on a fear mongering liberal rag, it justifies spreading an assumption?
originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: Arnie123
Fear mongering, inconjunction with your little blurb of "Bayonets" which make no mention in the article.
D on't be helpless
700 paratroopers ‘issued bayonets’ as 82nd Airborne prepares to carry out ‘Operation Themis’ at #DCprotests: report
Published 12 hours ago on June 2, 2020
Bayonets had to be signed out of the Arms Room and accountability was a rigid as a firearm. No one got a bayonet unless there was a high probability you were going to stick someone with it. Usually, holding an M16 in your hands was enough of a show of force.
If those rioters don't settle down, something bad might happen to them. It's happened before in DC.
They also were issued bayonets—standard issue but some feel could be inflammatory,” he explained. “Some context: they were issued to the members of the 82nd deploying to Washington, D.C. – they were told to pack them in their backpacks. Members I spoke said bayonets are always on their packing list but given the context of the protests, it could be perceived in a bad light.”