Daily Mail: National Guard are allowed back inside the Capitol after 5,000 were forced to take their breaks in parking lot by Capitol Police - sparking outraged governors of Florida and New Hampshire to recall their troopsMILITARY SOURCE IN DC:
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 22, 2021
“For the last week my battalion has been sleeping on the floor in the Senate cafeteria. Today the Senate kicked us out & moved us to a cold parking garage.
5000 soldiers.
1 power outlet.
One bathroom.
This is how Joe Biden’s America treats solders.”
PHOTOS pic.twitter.com/622sQmciq4
* Capitol Police apologized late Thursday after it emerged they'd asked troops brought in to protect DC to leave the Capitol building and take their rest breaks in a nearby designated parking lot instead
* Photos showed up to 5,000 Guardsmen sleeping on the floor of the packed Thurgood Marshall Building parking lot and in a park outside as temperatures hit a low of 40 degrees
* The scenes sparked immediate outrage among lawmakers as some Guardsmen revealed they felt 'incredibly betrayed' given they had just spent more than a week helping to fortify and protect the capital
* Some Guardsmen said the parking lot they were relocated to had a single power outlet, no internet and just one bathroom with two stalls
* It has prompted the governors of some states, including New Hampshire and Florida, to order the immediate return of their Guardsmen from DC
* Footage showed the Guardsmen filing out of the parking lot overnight after they were permitted around midnight to return to the Capitol building in the wake of the fierce backlash
* Troops do have hotel rooms but their 12 hour shift pattern means they can't easily return to their rooms during rest breaks. Before being located to the parking lot, the troops had been allowed to take breaks in the Capitol
* The troops will now take their breaks near the Emancipation Hall inside the Capitol building going forward
Thousands of National Guardsmen have now been allowed to return to the US Capitol after images of them sleeping outside and in a nearby parking garage overnight sparked outrage 24 hours after the inauguration.
Capitol Police apologized late on Thursday after it emerged they had asked the troops brought in to protect Washington DC to leave the Capitol building and take their rest breaks in a nearby designated parking lot instead.
Photos showed up to 5,000 Guardsmen sleeping on the floor of the packed Thurgood Marshall Building parking lot and in a park outside as temperatures hit a low of 40 degrees.
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WNU Editor: Not surprised that someone made the decision to reverse this travesty .... National Guard troops kicked out of Senate are back in Capitol following outrage from lawmakers, public (Army Times). Will we get to know who made the original stupid decision to put 5,000 National Guardsman in the parking lot? Here is my prediction. If it was a bureaucrat, we will know. If it was from a political leader's office, they will announce an investigation and bury it from there.
Update #1: Yup. The Congressional leadership are trying to bury this story .... 'Unreal' and 'outrageous': Democrats and Republicans demand a swift investigation into how soldiers ended up sleeping in a parking lot (Insider)
Update #2: President Trump has offered his hotel rooms to these soldiers.
More News On 5,000 National Guard Soldiers Being Forced To Take Their Breaks In The Parking Lot
National Guard troops who protected the Capitol for Biden’s Inauguration were told to sleep in a parking garage. -- New York Times
3 comments:
Biden, with his ridiculous, rote signature sign-off: "May God bless America, and may God protect our troops".
Just another rank platitude.
RULES for THEE
"Representative Will Keating (D-MA) reported to the Capitol building authorities earlier in the day that a (one, uno, ein) National Guardsman seen in a Dunkin Donuts wasn't wearing a mask."
RULES for ME
Joe Biden was not wearing mask at the Lincoln Memorial. Psaki true to form said it was a nothing burger. That gal can carry water like nobody's business.
We have been lectured and berated that that Trump's problem is that Trump was bad for not wearing a mask for its symbolic importance.
And there the demented geezer China Joe was without a mask.
If something like this had happened when Trump was POTUS, the media would've gone berserk. In this case, not much.
Of course Trump offers his hotel rooms. He has class and cares about the troops.
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