Army Times: 3rd Infantry troops redeployed for domestic duty (beginning of martial law?)

Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1

3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army

By Gina Cavallaro - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 8, 2008 6:15:06 EDT

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks…

In the meantime, they’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.

Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area…

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U.S. Tyranny Alert

Chalcedon’s response to the event you cite is:

That’s right. Right after spending upwards of 60 months in what the Army Times describes as “full battle rattle,” these battle hardened soldier boys are going to be patrolling your streets.

We’re moving into a total fascist state, and the majority of Americans are too busy watching football and Dancing with the Stars to care. Unless we change our present direction, life for your grandchildren will be a dark age of tyranny. Christians first and foremost have to resist the rise of the state in America. We are quickly becoming what Rushdoony once summarized about the former Soviet Union:

Properly speaking, there are no police in the Soviet Union, only political agents, and the military power. The arms of Soviet power are, first, the Communist Party, which, by its network of informants, controls, and powers, is important in the execution of Soviet decrees. Second, there are the so-called secret police, a state controlled, centralized body of political agents, whose purpose is not police work but the maintenance of political power. Third, there is the military power. The army, barracks across the country, patrols the cities with little or no knowledge of police work. These are Bolshevism’s three pillars of strength.[1]

1. R. J. Rushdoony, The Nature of the American System (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 2001 reprint), 176.