Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.

They’re ones who are trained and equipped for arctic warfare. This is kind of thing you do when planning to massacre civilians.

Edit: The Washington Post is now saying the same thing:

Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, officials say

Soldiers with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska have been placed at the ready following Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, according to defense officials.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    69·
    11 hours ago

    Could be; both are utterly illegal and any soldier who follows an order to attack either deserves to be prosecuted

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
      251·
      10 hours ago

      Prosecuted? Maybe. Summary execution, definitely. They aren’t soldiers. Soldiers took an oath to defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Anyone attacking civilians and protestors is just a regular old fashioned mass murderer.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1244·
      11 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s so black and white. A lot of those soldiers are barely surviving and their money feeds their kids. Enlisted don’t have the luxury of disobeying orders blindly, that law is applicable to the officers issuing them.

      Having said that, as a vet, I would do malicious incompetence and sabotage our mission in “incompetent” ways as much as possible. Also, I would never open fire on innocent civilians no matter what.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        381·
        10 hours ago

        Sorry but levying war against the United States is the one crime laid out in the Constitution. Don’t Do It.

        • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          4 hours ago

          Yeah, I was quite drunk last night. You’re 100% right that in this context, soldiers would have the ability to disobey these types of unlawful orders under the UCMJ.

          • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
            331·
            10 hours ago

            They know full well they’re going to Minnesota to kill a bunch of people for…blowing whistles.

            Right move in that situation is ro refuse.

            • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
              23·
              3 hours ago

              I don’t think they do know that. How many brainwashed people have you met yourself? Have you listened to any Fox News coverage - what would someone who trusts that outlet believe?

              • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
                41·
                2 hours ago

                I have met a lot of both active duty and retired service members. Not a single one of them would follow such an order.

                Have you ever met a United States service member?

                • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
                  2·
                  1 hour ago

                  You didn’t reply properly.

                  An order to “kill anyone blowing a whistle” or an order to “kill any domestic terrorists who approach suspiciously”?

                  And sure, but I don’t think our collective anecdotes are useful here.