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<blockquote data-quote="Admin." data-source="post: 1357925" data-attributes="member: 1129"><p>I happened to be at the Capitol building in Salem yesterday when General Gronewold (the head officer of the Oregon National Guard or TAG) talked about how this administration called up 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers for a deployment in Portland. He seemed bothered by this, but maybe that was just me projecting how I feel. He did ask that people try hard to differentiate between our Oregon National Guard citizen soldiers and the ICE employees. He also said that our soldiers know they do not have to obey an unlawful order. The state senate committee on veterans, emergency management, and federal and world affairs had some good questions that no one could answer. For example, will this deployment count towards active duty in a war zone (many VA benefits depend on this information). Everyone there agreed that this deployment was not asked for or needed. They are sending one military police unit, one infantry unit, and one Headquarters unit, and they picked the units by seeing which ones in Oregon had the most training for this kind of mission. I believe that this whole thing is a distraction and this administration wants Portland protestors to attack our troops to give them a reason to escalate. I truly hope we don't fall into this trap, and please remember that these soldiers are Oregon citizens that had to leave their jobs and families for a ridiculous reason. Thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Admin., post: 1357925, member: 1129"] I happened to be at the Capitol building in Salem yesterday when General Gronewold (the head officer of the Oregon National Guard or TAG) talked about how this administration called up 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers for a deployment in Portland. He seemed bothered by this, but maybe that was just me projecting how I feel. He did ask that people try hard to differentiate between our Oregon National Guard citizen soldiers and the ICE employees. He also said that our soldiers know they do not have to obey an unlawful order. The state senate committee on veterans, emergency management, and federal and world affairs had some good questions that no one could answer. For example, will this deployment count towards active duty in a war zone (many VA benefits depend on this information). Everyone there agreed that this deployment was not asked for or needed. They are sending one military police unit, one infantry unit, and one Headquarters unit, and they picked the units by seeing which ones in Oregon had the most training for this kind of mission. I believe that this whole thing is a distraction and this administration wants Portland protestors to attack our troops to give them a reason to escalate. I truly hope we don't fall into this trap, and please remember that these soldiers are Oregon citizens that had to leave their jobs and families for a ridiculous reason. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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