# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/41 "2025-06-10T04:04:00Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Twenty-Nine Palms, about 150 miles away. I guess that could be doable, with buses. That’d be a three-hour drive each way, even without the area’s legendary traffic jams. Doable, but brutal, I would imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/42 "2025-06-10T04:12:38Z")
There’s lots of open space at this federal property in Westwood. > **[On the Grid | Los Angeles National Cemetery](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/on-the-grid--39336196723790072/)** > > United States National Cemetery honoring veterans who have bravely served our country. The rolling hills against the backdrop of the city holds a sacred ambience. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/43 "2025-06-10T04:30:36Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Dodger Stadium is really close. Surely Donnie knows the the owner of the Dodgers. The Dodgers are owned by an investment group that includes Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King. The chief of the investment group, Mark Walter, is a long time big donor to the Democratic Party. ---
**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, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/44 "2025-06-10T04:42:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > That’d be a three-hour drive each way, even without the area’s legendary traffic jams. Doable, but brutal, I would imagine. 8-hours on duty and then a six hour round-trip commute. That would suck. If they are 12-hours on duty it doesn’t bear thinking about. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/45 "2025-06-10T04:48:02Z")
Right behind the Federal building they will likely be deployed at is a huge federal detention facility with beds, food, and an exercise yard. ---
**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, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/46 "2025-06-10T04:54:07Z")
As it now stands, is it empty? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/47 "2025-06-10T05:00:07Z")
All they have to do is ship off 700 current detainees to a gulag in El Salvador. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/48 "2025-06-10T05:20:09Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > 8-hours on duty and then a six hour round-trip commute. That would suck. If they are 12-hours on duty it doesn’t bear thinking about. Just speculating, but might someone be thinking it’s a good idea to have these troops just s bit angry and ready to take it out on whoever’s close to hand? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/49 "2025-06-10T10:36:20Z")
Long commutes are common for Southern California residents, are they not? ---
**Author:** ![fedman1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/50 "2025-06-10T14:59:49Z")
with the impulsive, lack of planning that went into this, can you imagine what a “surprise” invasion into Canada/Greenland/Panama would look like? I pity military leaders having to anticipate last-minute engagements at any time ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/51 "2025-06-10T15:05:59Z")
Competent militaries, of course, have general-purpose plans for short-notice deployments, with a lot of the preparations already being made without knowing in advance where they’ll deploy to. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/52 "2025-06-10T15:06:40Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > What military unit just travels hundreds of miles and hopes they will figure things out when they arrive? Madness Madness is definitely involved. Probably not on the part of the individual troops; though I suspect that in the other sense of the word they’re at least somewhat annoyed. ---
**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, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/53 "2025-06-10T15:26:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Competent militaries, of course, have general-purpose plans for short-notice deployments, with a lot of the preparations already being made without knowing in advance where they’ll deploy to. I suspect there’s a couple different definitions of _short-notice_ in play here… 1. Start preparations immediately to leave tomorrow 2. Leave immediately Sounds like the order was a whole lot more like #2 than #1 [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/ucNBmHb.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/7bMFFGn) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/54 "2025-06-10T15:57:31Z")
“Ours is not to question why; ours is but to sleep on the floor in the basement.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/55 "2025-06-10T16:58:17Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > In the meantime, I saw on another site that many of them are from the base in Twenty-Nine Palms, about 150 miles away. I guess that could be doable, with buses. That’s a Marine Corps base. The National Guard is not from there. ---
**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, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/56 "2025-06-10T17:09:31Z")
The US does have the ability to deploy troops very quickly. > **[Rapid reaction force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_reaction_force)** > > A rapid reaction force / rapid response force (RRF), quick reaction force / quick response force (QRF), immediate reaction force (IRF), rapid deployment force (RDF), or quick maneuver force (QMF) is a military or law enforcement unit capable of responding to emergencies in a very short time frame. > A quick reaction force (QRF) is an armed military unit capable of rapidly responding to developing situations, usually to assist allied units in need of assistance. They are equipped to respond to an... I’d think since the National Guard is often called on to deal with rapidly developing situations (riots or natural disasters) that they would have the capability to deploy very quickly. Even if some initial troops are sent immediately with only their gun and a little ammo a support force would not be too far behind. I worry at the lack of competence displayed here. Russia turned out to be a paper tiger. Is the US too? ---
**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, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/57 "2025-06-10T17:17:38Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That’s a Marine Corps base. The National Guard is not from there. Is there a rule against letting the National Guard camp on a Marine base for a week or two? All the same team in the end. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/58 "2025-06-10T17:59:50Z")
I suspect that the Marines would not welcome what they probably see as incompetent amateurs. ---
**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/59 "2025-06-10T18:32:14Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I hadn’t even thought about them being boarded on ships. It would make sense. There’s always the Queen Mary in Long Beach. > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > There are maybe five flat acres in that park that would be suitable for encampment without razing and grading the entire park. A large tent city in municipal parkland… what sort of social situation does that bring to mind? > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > 8-hours on duty and then a six hour round-trip commute. That would suck. If they are 12-hours on duty it doesn’t bear thinking about. This is also what I was wondering - whatever the situation, how do they plan on moving these troops? I assume they didn’t bring their own cars (although they are National Guard - weekend warriors?) If they are distributed around the city, the logisitics would be mind-boggling. No matter where they are, 2700 people at, say, 50 to a bus (with full kit) would be over 50 busses - or twice as many trucks… Missing from all this, too, is logistics like who goes to get gas, where, and who’s credit card? What if someone figures out their route and creates traffic jams? Does the average National Guard unit have someone who arranges this sort of logistics, or is that up to the governor’s office, usually? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406/60 "2025-06-10T18:33:11Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > That’s a Marine Corps base. The National Guard is not from there. > > Is there a rule against letting the National Guard camp on a Marine base for a week or two? All the same team in the end. I was commenting on the post that said the National Guard came from there. Not that they couldn’t use the facilities. They can’t use the facilities because it would be really dumb to have them based that far away. Camp Pendleton is 90 miles away, but that’s really too far also. I’m sure there are some National Guard armories that are much closer that won’t fit 2000 but you can fit several hundred. All they would need is a cot and room to put it in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troops-sent-to-los-angeles-housing/1019406.md?page=4)