# Troops sent to Los Angeles-Housing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 10, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406 "2025-06-10T02:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/1 "2025-06-10T02:12:09Z")
All the troops sent to Los Angeles by the President- Where are they staying? Are there empty barracks in decent shape for them to hole up in nearby? Where are they eating? Where is all the support staff coming from? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/2 "2025-06-10T02:16:25Z")
Most likely, they’re staying in hotel/motels, if there aren’t military barracks close by. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/3 "2025-06-10T02:18:14Z")
[Nowhere, apparently](https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/national-guard-california-photos-20368334.php) They’ve been sleeping in basements and loading docks.. > The troops — whose makeshift quarters are shown in photographs exclusively obtained by the Chronicle — arrived without federal funding for food, water, fuel, equipment or lodging, said the source, who was granted confidentiality [under Chronicle policies](https://archive.is/o/qaZ92/https://www.sfchronicle.com/standards/). This person said state officials and the California National Guard were not to blame. > “Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/4 "2025-06-10T02:23:49Z")
Presenting an excellent opportunity to trample the Third Amendment along with the rest of the Constitution ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/5 "2025-06-10T02:24:14Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > …if there aren’t military barracks close by. Los Angeles Air Force Base is the only military base in Los Angeles. I doubt they have empty barracks open for 2,000 (or 2,700) troops. That said, the US military certainly has tents. I’d think they could pitch the tents in the Air Force base or, in a pinch, co-opt some park. Logistics like this is one of the things the US military is good at. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/6 "2025-06-10T02:26:11Z")
When they are first provided the funding and support, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/7 "2025-06-10T02:33:46Z")
We had national guard troops on the ground in this county during a bad tornado aftermath. They “camped” inside an empty Walmart store. There was plenty of parking for all their vehicles. I doubt it was more than 300 hundred troops. 2700 federalized troops would take a large fair grounds or something. I’m sure LA could muster that. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/8 "2025-06-10T02:35:25Z")
Don’t give anybody any ideas! Field hospitals have been set up during COVID, and before that, I remember the 2011 Joplin tornado had such a facility after their main hospital took a direct hit. If the military, or even Red Cross or the like, could do that, they could arrange and construct some modicum of temporary housing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/9 "2025-06-10T02:38:22Z")
I don’t LA is going to be agreeable to handing public land over to a military that wasn’t requested or wanted. What land and support is actually available to them? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/10 "2025-06-10T02:39:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > When they are first provided the funding and support, perhaps. I do not understand this (I mean, I understand what you wrote, I do not understand how this happens). Presumably the National Guard has all the kit they need at hand and that deployment would be practiced and, when deployed, there are set kits they need to gather and travel with. So, grab ten tents for every platoon (or whatever), grab x-amount of MREs, ammo, guns, radios and so-on. What military unit just travels hundreds of miles and hopes they will figure things out when they arrive? Madness. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/11 "2025-06-10T02:42:06Z")
There’s always some government property/land. The fed says “we doing it” and they do it. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/12 "2025-06-10T02:43:16Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > What military unit just travels hundreds of miles and hopes they will figure things out when they arrive? Madness. Well, except that just _happened_. These guys arrived with borderline nothing. They’ve been sleeping on the floors of federal buildings and scrounging for food and water. [![](https://i.ibb.co/5yvfD45/IMG-0516.png) ](https://i.ibb.co/5yvfD45/IMG-0516.png) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/13 "2025-06-10T02:44:15Z")
Not well planned obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/14 "2025-06-10T02:45:58Z")
As far as I can tell, not planned at all. Big surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/15 "2025-06-10T02:47:06Z")
Interesting premise but…_where?_ Where are they parking over two thousand troops and the support staff needed? Bringing up examples of the public making do in those cases where they were asked to come in and assist just does not apply to this situation, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/16 "2025-06-10T02:53:32Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Los Angeles Air Force Base is the only military base in Los Angeles. I doubt they have empty barracks open for 2,000 (or 2,700) troops. That said, the US military certainly has tents. I’d think they could pitch the tents in the Air Force base or, in a pinch, co-opt some park. > > Logistics like this is one of the things the US military is good at. Los Angeles Air Force Base is basically a large office complex. There is a very small barracks for officers and enlisted on TDY, the ‘on-base housing’ is actually down at Ft. MacArthur in Long Beach, and there are no open spaces to pitch a ‘tent city’, nor are their other areas nearby that would be suitable. I guess you could put a few hundred in the LA Coliseum and BMO Stadium, and maybe clear out a few parking structures if everybody doesn’t mind sleeping on an incline. Beyond that, look for some empty warehouses not occupied by startups funded by crypto-bros, I guess? > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Most likely, they’re staying in hotel/motels, if there aren’t military barracks close by. Good fucking luck trying to find hundreds of hotel rooms on short notice near downtown LA. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/17 "2025-06-10T02:55:20Z")
You would think stadiums and such would already be booked solid. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/18 "2025-06-10T02:56:46Z")
And unlikely to roll out the welcome mat for what is seen here as an occupying force. Even if the facility owner (for the non-municipal stadiums) had the open calendar, I suspect they don’t want the public scrutiny. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/19 "2025-06-10T03:00:30Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The fed says “we doing it” and they do it. I imagine they’d probably just take over a large park somewhere. Sure the city could complain and Governor Newsom could sue but really, who is there to stop them? 2,000 armed troops are likely to get their way. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/20 "2025-06-10T03:01:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Interesting premise but…_where?_ Where are they parking over two thousand troops and the support staff needed? Bringing up examples of the public making do in those cases where they were asked to come in and assist just does not apply to this situation, does it? Once the NG is federalized, isn’t the funding then a federal, not state, responsibility? That, of course, would include such niceties as food and water. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406.md?page=2)