# Brigade homeland tour: Does it mean anything?

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**Created:** [September 24, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brigade-homeland-tour-does-it-mean-anything/464918 "2008-09-24T00:35:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brigade-homeland-tour-does-it-mean-anything/464918/1 "2008-09-24T00:35:27Z")

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[Picked up from a libertarian blogger](http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/) who’s scared that this is a feeler to skirt posse comitatus or something of that nature.

Can anyone fill me in on what, if anything, this really means?

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**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brigade-homeland-tour-does-it-mean-anything/464918/2 "2008-09-24T17:58:02Z")

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WOW…this is serious stuff…Can this really be happening in modern America?

Maybe it really is time to stock up supplies for your underground survival bunker.

And while your down there inside the bunker, read the scary details in the linked article, :

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> It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were mobilized to those areas

And even worse than that, these soldiers aren’t just being mobilized–they are being given **special training**!!

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> Training 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; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut trees to clear a road.

Man, I love it when libertarians get paranoid. 🙂  
Maybe your friendly blogger would calm down if he actually knew a few people in uniform.  
Gee, suppose he actually enlisted in that brigade himself? Look what he would be mobilized to do:

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> Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all of the brigade could be scrambled there

But I suppose that being ordered by his commanding officer to use the ‘jaws of life’ and a chainsaw to rescue his fellow citizens might just be a violation of his libertarian creed; so he should be able to escape from army service on the grounds that he’s a consciencious objector.