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I beleive someone recently mentioned an idea similar to this just recently on LIF, although I don't know where it was. I wonder how many guys on LIF would like to join a Paramilitary force like this ? Anyone ? Buehler ....
(March 6) --Terrorist attacks and natural disasters often happen without warning. For one Louisiana sheriff, that's reason enough to start training a 200-member paramilitary force -- just don't call it a militia.
Larry Deen, the sheriff of Bossier Parish, told the Shreveport Times he came up with the idea for "Operation Exodus," a volunteer corps made up of parish residents, shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
It was in the tense hours after planes flown by terrorists felled the World Trade Center and slammed into the Pentagon that Deen and his men guarded then-President George W. Bush at Bossier City's Barksdale Air Force Base, roughly 340 miles northwest of New Orleans.
Nearly nine years later, Deen put out a call to prospective volunteers, and "Operation Exodus" finally became a reality. Some 300 of Bossier Parish's 110,000 residents responded, and of those, 200 have been chosen for training. The first classes began this week. Just five of those approved for combat roles are black and there are no women.
When asked by the Times whether the newly formed group could be described as a militia, Deen bristled. "We run from that word," Deen said. "We're just the opposite of that word."
"The main thing that we're trying to do," Chief Deputy Doyle Dempsey said in a video posted on the department's Web site, is "set up a prevention mode to implement during Operation Exodus. And what the means is, if we can show an overwhelming show of force prior to any major incident taking place, we can hopefully prevent it from starting before it ever happens."
A lifelong resident of Bossier Parish and a former president of the Northwest Louisiana Chapter of the Cops for Christ, Deen describes himself as a deeply religious man. His bio on the sheriff's office Web site proclaims that he "answers to his God and to the citizens he serves."
Indeed, Deen said in a press release that the name for Operation Exodus came from the Old Testament, and later told the Shreveport Times that its realization is a "calling."
"In the Book of Exodus, the Israelites were totally on their own," the press release reads, "learning to be self-sufficient and handle everything along, just as the [Operation Exodus] plan provides."
While publicity materials stress no specific terrorist threat to Bossier Parrish, the cover to the group's training manual states, "Somewhere right now your enemy is training so that when he meets you he defeats you."
Weapons such as .50-caliber machine guns purchased by the sheriff's department are at the group's disposal so that it can protect resources such as grocery stores and gas stations against the dual threats posed by "homegrown terrorists" and natural disasters.
According to the Times, Deen's department will also make shotguns, riot shields and batons available to the members of Operation Exodus.
Never see that here. New York isn't Louisiana. It's barely America!
Joe
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but i want a M2 it would go nice with my expedition as long as the brass does not break the windshield
El "Jeff"
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." ~ Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Lose your moral compass, and you will lose your liberty. The ultimate form of control is self-control.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them.
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It's not about gun control .......it's about total control. We are not subjects - we are citizens! Calling Illegal Immigrants "Undocumented Aliens" is like calling Drug Dealers "Unlicensed Pharmacists"
THAT DILLON IS SWEET BUT it only shoots 7.62X51 i allready can pop those off.
Yeah....7.62....but at 3,000 rounds per minute!
El "Jeff"
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." ~ Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Lose your moral compass, and you will lose your liberty. The ultimate form of control is self-control.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them.
that is nice but i still would want a m-60 in that caliber or a real M-14
oh yeah we went so far off the reservation on this
I'd like a Barrett M107 please!
El "Jeff"
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit." ~ Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Lose your moral compass, and you will lose your liberty. The ultimate form of control is self-control.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them.
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I dunno...I'm all for having personal firearms to protect you and yours if the SHTF, but $20 says this organization becomes a power-drunk "Loot Squad" in the event of a real disaster. Most of the New Orleans police force took a powder during Katrina, and they were supposedly professionals.
'Peace' is that brief, curious moment in history when everyone is standing around, and the smart people are reloading...
I dunno...I'm all for having personal firearms to protect you and yours if the SHTF, but $20 says this organization becomes a power-drunk "Loot Squad" in the event of a real disaster. Most of the New Orleans police force took a powder during Katrina, and they were supposedly professionals.
+1, and they (the pd) had common traing, standards during recruitment, active le experience etc .... Ronding up a posse with no standards is a bad idea. In the absence of a highly organized vetting process the chances are you will end up with morbidly obese wannabes instead of capable, compotent and willing individuals.
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Here's Web site I came across showing some US history on this. Very interesting timeline. Also if you go to the home page and click on "Art Gallery" you can see some of the posters from "not very long ago"...
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110,000 people in the community, a good size.
Only 300 applications rec'd.
Of those, they took 200.
Being a PD, I am sure they will do a background check. Article does not say what the physical requirements are. Using a cross section of America as a guide, I hope the good Sheriff has an EMT with an AED standing by during the training.
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Terry P. Thanks for putting that up. Very interesting. Brings back memories. I like the one that was how to build your own bomb shelter. I think they nevver should have done away with the CD program. ACORN yes, C.D. no.
In WW 2 the CG Auxiliary was armed and patroled the water and beaches.
Civilians can still get training through OEM, CERT or DOH MRC.
Terry P. Thanks for putting that up. Very interesting. Brings back memories. I like the one that was how to build your own bomb shelter. I think they nevver should have done away with the CD program. ACORN yes, C.D. no.
In WW 2 the CG Auxiliary was armed and patroled the water and beaches.
Civilians can still get training through OEM, CERT or DOH MRC.
I thought that CD was "absorbed" by FEMA? Even though CD was much much more useful at their mission then FEMA will ever be.
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