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Submitted Kat Stansell (Independent Journalist and Earnest Patriot) –
As many of you may know, 700 men and women of the TN Army National Guard left for assignment in Kuwait, Sept 28, on the same weekend as Helene struck our 6 eastern-most counties: Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Unicoi and Washington.
In NC, there were 3000 deployed, also to Kuwait, on the same day. I’d hope it was just an uncomfortable coincidence, so I called around to find out.
When I finally found someone who knew something, at a Guard Recruiting office in Knoxville, I learned that these missions are scheduled one year in advance, and when for overseas duty, handled by the US Army, not the states.
These types of deployments are to bolster numbers in the US Army, where recruiting has been a problem. That left us short of people to help in such local disasters as Helene, or whatever might come next. I thanked the young man for his explanation, which I had not been able to get from the Governor’s office, or the Secretary of State.
So, if you feared, as I did, that this was another purposeful back-turning on Americans, you can rest at ease.
Personally, I won’t relax until we have a fairly elected President of the United States, and members of the US Congress, but I am at least relieved to know that this deployment was not to do further harm to Conservatives.
Wouldn’t that be a turn for the better, after the last four!
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I for one don’t believe in coincidences, and I also wouldn’t take that recruiter’s scripted answer to be on the up and up… We’ve seen how this regime deflects and lies at every turn. Anyone with half a brain in the position of “power” would have determined the greater need for those guard members to be where they are most needed – helping hurricane victims.
Whichever, whatever, IMHO TN National Guard has ZERO BUSINESS out of the US.