Can Armed Forces Be Used As National Emergency Forced Labor?

[Camp]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

 

[evenflow1969]

proly, does not mean that is a good idea. They can not be in two places at once and there is a reason they have the jobs they do in the forces.

 

[the other mike]

In a way they're prisoners to Uncle Sam once they sign on.
For better or worse each person has to make that choice of having
an uncertain future.

Normally the Reserves and National Guard handle domestic emergencies
where DHS and FEMA run out of manpower, though. (Although a LOT were sent to Afghan., and Iraq )

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

No reason to. Go back to work.

 

[martybegan]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

What would untrained people accomplish by taking over these spots?

In the weeks or even months it would take them to figure out how to do said jobs, we could just re-open the businesses in phases.

 

[Camp]

So, Trump could order National Guard, Reserves and even active-duty troops into the workforce.

 

[Meathead]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

Years ago, when I was living in Greece, after a prolonged garbage men's strike (er, I mean sanitation engineers), the military was called in to collect garbage.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

The 10th Mountain Division was deployed to Florida after hurricane Andrew.

 

[the other mike]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

What would untrained people accomplish by taking over these spots?

In the weeks or even months it would take them to figure out how to do said jobs, we could just re-open the businesses in phases.

At least half of the unskilled menial labor jobs can be learned in a day or a matter of minutes. Then after that as in most jobs it's basically on-the-job training as you become more experienced and move up the ladder or whatever. Cleaning up oil spills and fighting wildfires, tornado & hurricane and other natural disasters ....anyone who's done boot camp and toured war zones is perfect for those kind of tasks.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

proly, does not mean that is a good idea. They can not be in two places at once and there is a reason they have the jobs they do in the forces.

Proly is not a word. Try again in English.

 

[evenflow1969]

proly, does not mean that is a good idea. They can not be in two places at once and there is a reason they have the jobs they do in the forces.

Proly is not a word. Try again in English.

ya, fuck your self but thank you. Check out the dictionary dick! guesswhat aint has been added but thanks there dumb fuck who thinks way to much of him self.

 

[Camp]

So, how many Americans would support this option?

 

[SaxxyBlues]

Posse Comitatus Act - Wikipedia

– is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1956 and 1981.

The act specifically applies only to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. Although the act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the act force with respect to those services as well. The act does not prevent the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard (under the Department of Homeland Security) and United States Space Force (under the Department of the Air Force) are not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although both are armed services, they also have maritime and space law enforcement missions respectively.

 

[progressive hunter]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

why not just let private sector people work if they want to???

no reason to use force on anyone,,,

 

[SaxxyBlues]

Remember when the Prez sent military to Southern border to help with the wall? They couldn't be armed. The Prez hit the roof. They went unarmed.

 

[Kondor3]

I'm not sure we need to have a Navy Seal or a Grunt from the 82nd skinning a cow in an Iowa meat-processing plant.

Didn't Harry Truman break the back of the train-engineer's union by threatening to literally draft railroad workers into the military and ordering them to their duty stations?

 

[Levant]

When I was in the Navy, we were in the shipyards in Charleston and redoing the ship from basically bare metal. The yardbirds were starting on asbestos removal and then quit and we were forced to do it as forced labor - with zero protective gear and were not even - no mask, no covering, no nothing - until near the end of the work, told that it was asbestos.

I worked for a month in asbestos dust and particles literally as deep as my knees at some points.

 

[Camp]

Active military members may be in for a surprise.

 

[martybegan]

Can a Commander in Chief order soldiers Marines, airmen, and sailors to work in essential and other jobs during a National Emergency? Why not?
Couldn't we open our manufacturing and other businesses up simply by staffing them with our military?

What would untrained people accomplish by taking over these spots?

In the weeks or even months it would take them to figure out how to do said jobs, we could just re-open the businesses in phases.

At least half of the unskilled menial labor jobs can be learned in a day or a matter of minutes. Then after that as in most jobs it's basically on-the-job training as you become more experienced and move up the ladder or whatever. Cleaning up oil spills and fighting wildfires, tornado & hurricane and other natural disasters ....anyone who's done boot camp and toured war zones is perfect for those kind of tasks.

One at a time maybe, but replacing an entire staff with untrained personnel is different, no matter how menial the task. You would also probably be replacing foremen, supervisors, and support staff, all of which are higher skilled.

 

[the other mike]

One at a time maybe, but replacing an entire staff with untrained personnel is different, no matter how menial the task. You would also probably be replacing foremen, supervisors, and support staff, all of which are higher skilled.

Just have the military supervise the prisoners and illegal immigrants.
Most of them have a little construction, road work or heavy equipment training.