{"id":1895,"date":"2011-09-10T17:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T08:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2011-09-10T17:30:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T08:30:03","slug":"force-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/force-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Force Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something that has always bothered me is “force protection” measures which have active duty military hiding among US civilians. “You don’t want to stand out in a hijacking–keep your military ID in a hidden pocket. No uniforms allowed. You may be targeted just for being in the military.” That sort of thing.
\nHow dare the military hide among civilians?<\/p>\n

I understand the desire to not have another Robert Stethem situation, but when the rubber hits the road, isn’t that why we’re here? At the last resort, to take the hit so that our civilians don’t have to?<\/p>\n

We have lost a lot in the desire to understand and control situations which are better met with simple brutal action. The guiding principle I trust the most is “They can’t kill us all, let’s roll!”<\/p>\n

This is because if nobody rolls, then yes, they actually CAN kill us all. In our chairs.<\/p>\n

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Something that has always bothered me is “force protection” measures which have active duty military hiding among US civilians. “You don’t want to stand out in a hijacking–keep your military ID in a hidden pocket. No uniforms allowed. You may be targeted just for being in the military.” That sort of thing.
How dare the military hide among civilians?<\/p>\n

I understand the desire to not have another Robert Stethem situation, but when the rubber hits the road, isn’t that why we’re here? At the last resort, to take the hit so that our civilians don’t have to?<\/p>\n

We have lost a lot in the desire to understand and control situations which are better met with simple brutal action. The guiding principle I trust the most is “They … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,260,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom","category-society","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}