Trumps National Guard sleeps on a hard floor in Los Angeles.........

[riversedge]

I think last night was their 1st night--or maybe their second night in LA

Link to tweet

[FirstLight]

1. Meidas report that they have no food water or lodging

Because they were deployed without the normal process...

How fucking on brand.

[Silent Type]

2. Plenty of TACO stands. Put it on trump's credit card.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[yellow dahlia]

4. Makes me want to cry. They should not be treated so poorly.

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Just symptomatic of the chaotic shit show completely lacking in respect for everything and everyone....especially our military.

[madville]

19. This is pretty standard

Whether training or deployed, we always slept anywhere and anytime they would let us.

[yellow dahlia]

20. But no food being provided?

If I were in LA, I would drop off sandwiches and salads.

[madville]

21. Find it hard to believe

That the California NG would be so ill prepared or incompetent that they can’t coordinate food and water in a major city. My units had a deployable kitchen that could be loaded onto a trailer or into a C-130 or C-17 plane. We would always take at least a case of MREs and a case of water per person to get through the first couple of days until things could get there and get set up. We’d set up a MRE buffet line where everyone could put the stuff they didn’t like or want and others could snack off of lol.

Sometimes if we were in a populated area we would be given travelers checks/per diem and eat wherever we wanted or go grocery shopping and cook ourselves.

[Kablooie]

28. Probably the guy that ordered them out..

Was some Trump guy who had never done it before.

[madville]

29. Not really the way it works

Every unit has Load Out plans for different evolutions. Could be natural disaster response, crowd/riot control, war, whatever. They have full time soldiers and civilians that maintain their supplies and equipment in garrison. Just can’t picture a commanding officer saying leave all the supplies and equipment at home, we’ll just wing it lol.

[Kablooie]

32. But that's in the United States.

We are in Trump's dystopia.
Whatever he wants he gets immediately.
To hell with rules and procedures.

[sarisataka]

31. It is something those who have never been in the military have difficulty understanding

I know at least once in that room, you would’ve heard someone say at least there’s a roof over our heads

[msongs]

22. well they chose to follow orders, sleeping on the floor is their reward from their overlords nt

[rockfordfile]

5. Proud of the CA National Guard

CA National Guard are their because it's become dangerous. This reminds me of Jan 6.

Why do they have Mexico flags and not American flags? Normal people would question that.

violence isn't the answer and to support that is messed up and not democratic.

[newdeal2]

7. You do not need the national guard to deal with this

The media and Trump sensationalize everything. Local PD could handle this level of protest.

[stillcool]

13. unfortunately what people see on

their tv screen does not tell the story. No news there. The violence is overwhelmingly on the side of ICE...no news there either. Lots of video's and first hand accounts on video to be seen elsewhere, but that's a choice. Flags? I don't know. My relatives had Irish flags all over the place. Would that have been okay with you? We had ICE come in my neck of the woods in the past few weeks. Several humvees to abduct a middle-aged woman. The neighbors saw the infiltration of ICE and came out to help her. This was not California, it was MA. No flags. Diverse neighborhood. ICE made a big show, guns blazing, not answering any questions, masked pushing and shoving. Don't know how you would have felt if that was your neighborhood. Probably wouldn't care? Some people care about what happens to people they know. A thousand people getting abducted from the streets of L.A. in one day? Can't imagine. But hey...those flags?

[Prairie Gates]

18. There's those "normal people" again

What the actual fuck.

[madville]

6. Having deployed myself long ago

Sometimes you arrive before the Admin folks can set up lodging or there is no lodging. We had connex boxes that could be loaded on semi trailers with our tents, water, MREs and other equipment and supplies but sometimes we got there days ahead of that stuff arriving and getting set up.

You rest anywhere you can when given the opportunity. I’ve had to sleep on the floor in a daycare center for a few days after a hurricane. Have also stayed in large tents in muddy fields or the desert on hard cots and a sleeping bag, slept in vehicles, slept in vacant office buildings slept in the rain, on picnic tables, etc, etc.

[Rebl2]

12. Did you

ever sleep underneath a plane you were working on with just the hard concrete as your bed, no sleeping bag to be had? My husband did back in the early seventies while serving in the Air Force in Thailand.

[madville]

14. Not that one

Have slept in a C17 plane that was about -10 below inside at altitude because the heater quit working lol

[genxlib]

16. This is true in Search and Rescue too

First night of deployment is always rough until the logistics people catch up to you.

I have slept on a few floors in my day.

However, we usually managed to find a carpeted room at least.

[madville]

24. Sometimes you just don't care

I was never too picky, give me somewhere dry with a roof or in the shade and I was good lol.

[Rebl2]

8. Did they

forget their sleeping bags.

[Johonny]

10. Standard Trump organizational skills

6 months from now, food and supplies show flow in.

[lame54]

11. Makes them more irritable the next shift

[SSJVegeta]

15. For anybody commenting on other social media, please do not denigrate the guardsman

It will give more ammo to the right wingers and feed the narrative against us.

[LauraInLA]

17. ICE is in hotels ;)

[milestogo]

23. What? No Trump Hotel in LA?

[msongs]

25. CA guard is highly trained to respond to...earthquakes. use earthquake logistics nt

[dutch777]

26. They are soldiers! Many times I would have been happy for a dry hard floor out of the rain, wind and cold. Sheesh!

I know it's not combat or any real life threatening emergency they are attending to but they will be fine. Besides, did anyone really think any of this would be thought out?

[UpInArms]

27. Hoping that hard floor

makes them think ..

Long and hard …

about what they are doing and why

[SheltieLover]

30. They are ok being treated this way? I think they should join protesters!