We knew sending 26,000 National Guard troops into the District of Columbia for the inauguration was going to be a waste of resources even if everything went flawlessly.
In one sense, it did. “There were no security incidents reported involving the National Guard,” a statement from the National Guard Bureau after the inauguration read.
“Our ability to move 26,000 Soldiers and Airmen to DC from every state and territory in less than two weeks would not have been possible without the support of our governors and their adjutants general.”
So, thanks for coming, guys. No real threats after all. But would you mind sticking around for a spell? We’ve heard chatter some of those armed militias that didn’t materialize the first time around might be planning something on the “historic” Inauguration Day on March 4. (No, seriously.)
Aside from being a tremendous waste of resources, it also turns out it apparently wasn’t flawlessly planned — so when a food contract went bad, the Guard had to start ordering from Washington restaurants.
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On Friday, Military.com reported that Guardsmen still deployed to the nation’s capital after the inauguration — which numbered about 7,000 at the end of last week — were eating what National Guard Bureau spokesman Maj. Aaron Thacker termed “a large quantity of various food choices off of the local economy.”
“There are contingencies to the master feeding plan that are put in motion in the event that the primary feeding plan has an issue,” Thacker said in a Thursday email.
“The claim that Guard troops were short of meals first surfaced on social media,” Military.com reported.
“In a since-deleted Nextdoor post, a northern Virginia resident asked neighbors whether they knew of any restaurants or organizations willing to work with the Guard to provide food, citing a lack of supplies that particularly affected troops self-isolating in hotel rooms after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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http://www.westernjournal.com/dc-politicians-fail-ultimate-leadership-test-local-businesses-chip-help-cover-soldiers-supply-gap/
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