According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might deploy troops against what he deems domestic threats, including political enemies, dissenters and immigrants.
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There’s also the police that are basically ready to go now. I wonder how ham the military would let the police and brown shirts go before stepping in. I’m guessing very very ham.
Yup, they’d make temporary on base housing available to soldiers who normally live off base to keep them away from the police in that case. But for the most part the attitude would be, “not my lane, not my problem.”
Also, just to be clear, that temporary housing would be permanent. In the best tradition of governments everywhere.