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You're seemingly unaware that the law prohibits the use of the military (i.e., active and reserve Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine personnel and resources) in domestic situations except in limited circumstances.Just what we need, more of our troops stationed in other countries defending them instead of defending the US.
Too, it seems you are unaware that we have something called the National Guard whose very purpose is to do the sorts of things to which you allude.
- The Posse Comitatus Act and Related Matters: The Use of the Military to Execute Civilian Law (2012)
- The Posse Comitatus Act and Related Matters: The Use of the Military to Execute Civilian Law (2000)
- Historical perspective on the Posse Comitatus Act
I presume you wrote what you did because you thought it "sounded good." Anyone who bothered to think about U.S. law and law enforcement capabilities, resources and constraints would know that for however good such a remark "sounds," it's nonetheless an utterly insipid one to make for there is neither an emergent nor chronic need to deploy U.S. military personnel who'd otherwise be stationed abroad to the defence of the U.S. (49 continental states, Hawaii and the various U.S. territories around the world).
The National Guard consists of the Army National Guard and the Air Force Air National Guard. While federally funded, the National Guard is organized and controlled by state. However, in times of war, the National Guard can become federalized and deployed. The National Guard engages in a number of activities. During local emergencies, National Guard units assist communities endangered by storms, floods, fires, and other disasters. National Guard companies deployed overseas may see combat, but are more often building schools and hospitals, training local peacekeepers, or teaching local farmers more efficient farming techniques and better ways to use of their land. As with the Reserve, the National Guard requires training drills one weekend a month and two weeks per year. National Guard members are given Veteran status if they have served for 30 consecutive days in a war zone. (Source)
I know all about the Posse Comitatus act and it has been taken to extremes it was never meant to be taken to.
And it has nothing to do with us defending other nations and not our own. And this is from a guy that spent more than half of his 20 years in the Corps on foreign soil.