National Guard Considering Major Expansion in Indo-Pacific

[rebewranger]

National Guard Considering Major Expansion in Indo-Pacific

In an interview, Gen. Dan Hokanson says Guard seeks to amplify its training presence because of China’s increased aggressiveness.

TARA COPP | JULY 25, 2022 03:01 PM ET
NATIONAL GUARD ASIA-PACIFIC ARMY AIR FORCE
   
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT – The National Guard is considering a sizable expansion of training programs with Indo-Pacific nations to amplify U.S. presence there, its top general said Monday.

Various Guard units currently have more than 90 training arrangements with countries around the world, such as the California National Guard’s decades-old program with Ukraine. Where the next program is launched is determined by a priority list created by the State Department, combatant commanders, and the Guard, said chief of the National Guard Bureau Army Gen. Dan Hokanson.

Of the top 10 under consideration now, “probably five of those 10” are in the Indo-Pacific, Hokanson told Defense One. 

“As you know, it’s a very important theater right now,” Hokanson said.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/07/national-guard-considering-major-expansion-indo-pacific/374892/

[sneakypete]

WTF?

Has no one ever explained what the letters "NG" stand for to this dummy?

[sneakypete]

Look at this goobers awards and decorations list. Not a SINGLE one for valor in combat. ALL "good old boy badges".

[Smokin Joe]

Because if they send the National Guard off someplace far, far, away, when they make their power move toward totalitarianism, it will be their Janissaries against ordinary folks.

[roamer_1]

Because if they send the National Guard off someplace far, far, away, when they make their power move toward totalitarianism, it will be their Janissaries against ordinary folks.

I don't know how governors leave them lent. Bring em home. NG don't need no bases anywhere but the states they live in... Not to mention other countries. WTF.

[sneakypete]

Because if they send the National Guard off someplace far, far, away, when they make their power move toward totalitarianism, it will be their Janissaries against ordinary folks.

@Smokin Joe

If that is their plan,they need another plan.

Think to po-po are going to keep the citizens from stringing up the pols from lamp posts?

If you do,you had better think again. There are not that many of them,they are locals in ANY community they are called up in,which means they have to worry about something happening to their wives and children if they get too pushy with rioters,and some of the rioters are bound to be their neighbors or other friends.

In other words,if push comes to shove,they are more likely to join the rioters than they are to open fire on their neighbors.

Nope. If it goes that far,what we are going to need is more lamp posts,not more police.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

If that is their plan,they need another plan.

Think to po-po are going to keep the citizens from stringing up the pols from lamp posts?

If you do,you had better think again. There are not that many of them,they are locals in ANY community they are called up in,which means they have to worry about something happening to their wives and children if they get too pushy with rioters,and some of the rioters are bound to be their neighbors or other friends.

In other words,if push comes to shove,they are more likely to join the rioters than they are to open fire on their neighbors.

Nope. If it goes that far,what we are going to need is more lamp posts,not more police.

I wasn't thinking police so much as radicalized and 'woke' regulars.

[GtHawk]

I wasn't thinking police so much as radicalized and 'woke' regulars.

Remember when Obama said he wanted a “national security force”? Not the national guard, but a civilian one that has not sworn to uphold the Constitution?

[Fishrrman]

GTHawk:
"Not the national guard, but a civilian one that has not sworn to uphold the Constitution?"

See:
"Federal Anti Terrorist Police" (FATPO)...