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DankMustyFarrik
The real DC homeless problem.
Rapbot20
The crime rampant y'all....gotta pick garbage and sleep on the ground because of all this crime
ElbowDeepInAHeadlessHorseman
A reminder... National Guardsmen and Guardswomen have civilian jobs. It's a part time volunteer service meant to assist in true emergencies. The way they're being misused here... taken away from their careers and families to pick up trash and make a show for Trump is fucking beyond disgraceful. Not only is Trump complicit in this atrocity, but so are several Republican Governors who all eagerly signed up to treat emergency responders like dogshit. Someone really needs to do it...
ManholeStellarReconveneSubstanceOlympicsReunion
#1 If you've ever worked outdoor physical labor, you've slept on the ground at some point. I'd bet that's even more true of any group of people associated with the military.
EdWinchester
OMFG, getting strong Berlin 1933 vibes from how it's looking there
BdrLen
Troops will sleep in a patch of shade when there's nothing going on, just what troops do.
SergeyPrkl
What, Trump Banners? It it it it's like it was a dictatorship.
BadAsprin
like hes following the dictator handbook
saberattling
Eat when you can,
Sleep when you can
dogdayafternoon13
The national grounds keeper. Keep the parks save.
Bunnies007
#5 and #6 Huge banner of The Dear Leader has some serious dictator energy.
mrsdowneyjr
It's fucking terrifying
Heelcat70
Is there any record of them stopping crimes or arresting criminals?
Eddyrock
Sleeping anywhere in almost any position is an essential skill for soldiering
guardian19d
Gotta sleep somewhere.
heffSTL
Chump deployed them on 29 day rotation so they don't get housing funds or health care which only kick in at 30 days.
He's a cheap bastard who holds our service members in contempt even as they are being used as political props.
It's fucking disgusting.
Grumpy72
Former Army (active duty and National Guard) here and I can say (as others have) that sleeping anytime you're allowed to stop moving is pretty much encouraged behavior. Crash while you can, you never know when your next chance will be. And even though it's ridiculously expensive having the National Guard cleaning up around town, it's known as "policing the area" and Soldiers do it all the time. Nothing new to them, typical busywork they're already "well trained for."
migratingotter
Good. Keeps them from helping the fascist. Glad the orange fkwit is alienating them.
Trimule
I am still amazed (I know - I know) that any President would use that glowering, Palpatine-esque "I'm gonna fuck you up!" picture as his official portrait. Not a smile, not a contemplative gaze, not a stern look, just pure malice.
TacticalSpoon
This is extremely normal military behavior. Get called somewhere, hurry up and wait, someone sees you all sleeping while waiting and now you have some random detail to perform. Of course we should send them home but I would much rather see this than them stomping protesters.
Zootsoot
Good. We want them listless, bored, and fed up with their assignment.
The more they’re sick of Trump, the better.
And just wait until Hurricane season progresses, and Trump won’t let them go home to help their state.
sadurdaynight
The CO's are trying to keep them busy, but also trying to have them do community service so as not to turn civilian opinion against the military. These folks look bored AF, and it's insulting having highly trained military doing nothing but trash duty around the town. But, hey, they're leaving it nicer than when they came. Can't say the same about ICE.
malbec
And the millions it’s costing to have them do that…
TheResolver
Army combat veteran here: Grunts sleep on the ground like it's a fancy hotel bed, when they do this it is in an instant and can be almost anywhere there is a spot to flop down. No pillow? No problem. You prop your head on your ruck sack and use your garrison cap as a cover for your face. Why do they do this you may ask, because they are used to dealing with the "suck". The "suck is what drives the Army, hurry up and wait, and do pointless jobs to fill down time... the "suck" Hoo Ahh!
meowingintensifies
soldier: is this a surface of any degree (90, 180, etc.) not entirely covered with hornets? if yes, sleep. if no, ... sleep I guess?
FleaTron
Wow, isn't this costing us half a million a day for the national guard to do community service? Fuckin orange that and all his ilk need a firm slap.
molotovity
No waste and abuse to see here…
TomahawkJackson
Contrapoint: This is the same type of work the National Guard does after other kinds of disasters like hurricanes, tornados, wild fires, etc. IMO the homes in the area they're serving in have been hit by a Political Disaster, and that leaves all the homes standing, so it LOOKS different, but it's not.
FleaTron
Interesting point, thank you
malbec
Countercontrapoint. They’re an invading military presence, not a peacekeeping one.
Vendryth
Contra 2point: "other kinds of disasters"? What disaster are they dealing with there, other than an administrative one?
TomahawkJackson
Don't be dense.
I mean (broadly) Every Other Time In The Last 20 Years That The National Guard Has Been Called Up To Go Into An Area To Help Out With Hands And Feet.
e.g. Katrina, Sandy, Camp Fire, Dixie Fire, Harvey, staffing thousands of COVID Vaccination Sites, Maria, Ian, Michael, Bowling Green Tornado Storm, etc.
TomahawkJackson
/2 This is the same kind of 'Hands and Feets Doing Work That Needs Doing' - whether it's picking up cigarette butts in the park or picking up fallen trees, it's the same *type* of work that benefits the community. I expected this to go WAY worse than it has. This isn't shocking scenes of DC under the thumb of the ANG. This is...so much lamer and sort of hilarious. Definitely shouldn't be normalized, but this example is a fucking clown show.
woozle
I was in the guard and we'd nap pretty much anywhere.
Kaze54
I was in active duty, and we nap pretty much anywhere.
I once fell asleep while marching.
moistsox
I was in the regular army and we napped everywhere all the time. Often on the ground
solrev
It’s a useful skill. That 38 hours awake is just around the corner.
IjustsaywhatIthink
In the army one rule I learned was "never stand when you can sit; never sit when you can lie down; never lie down without going to sleep." In the dirt, under a helicopter, on a lawn, in a cot...it's all the same thing.
CelestialSea
I fell asleep standing up and leaning on a tree once. Almost got busted for sleeping while on guard duty (it was just a training exercise).
Snooj
Yeah, sleeping on the ground isn't laziness, it's the opposite. You have to be fairly exhausted to get in a good nap on the ground.
AllMyOpinionSuck
We used to take naps standing up in formation. Every one in a while someone would fall. Good times
TomahawkJackson
I was in the Marines. Can confirm. Napped under a deuce and a half at 29 Palms. Napped (in 5 second bursts) while (somehow still) learning Ohm's Law. Napped after lunch in the shade of the little cafe at Amboy, CA when we had to go 'the long way around' to get in the back gate to set up tank targets (stacked tires, mostly) and mine fields (stakes with a wooden sign pounded in the ground) for an exercise that week.
woozle
I fell asleep once while I was driving a tank.
AWarningToOthers
In basic training I fell asleep on a march out to the range.
likuidlightning
That's just being in the Army in general.
herppavitunderrpa23
any time you're not told to do something, you nap.
woozle
totally. even in basic we'd jam our hands into the bunk springs and it would hold our arms up to look like we were under there tightening the covers. You could get five more minutes of sleep that way.
likuidlightning
Same. We also slept in the lockers in the unused barracks rooms. Just had to make sure a couple people knew you were in there.
woozle