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RandySF

(59,543 posts) Sat May 30, 2020, 08:05 AM May 2020

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Private militia deploys teenage boys to stand guard in Atlanta.

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Private militia deploys teenage boys to stand guard in Atlanta. (Original Post) RandySF May 2020 OP

Are they National Guard? Lots of official-looking combat vehicles behind them. Celerity May 2020 #1

National Guard. OneBro May 2020 #2

Would the National Guard deploy minors? RandySF May 2020 #4

I'm not convinced they are minors. OneBro May 2020 #6

There is another thread doing the same. Tipperary May 2020 #5

That's the National Guard Liberal In Texas May 2020 #3

Celerity

(43,652 posts)

1. Are they National Guard? Lots of official-looking combat vehicles behind them.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 08:16 AM

May 2020

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OneBro

(1,159 posts)

2. National Guard.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 08:17 AM

May 2020

Her calling them “Hitler Youth” is disgustingly foul.

RandySF

(59,543 posts)

4. Would the National Guard deploy minors?

Reply to OneBro (Reply #2)

Sat May 30, 2020, 04:13 PM

May 2020

OneBro

(1,159 posts)

6. I'm not convinced they are minors.

Reply to RandySF (Reply #4)

Sat May 30, 2020, 04:22 PM

May 2020

No, I don't think the National Guard would send minors, but the minimum age for service is 17 and the height requirement might be low enough for these folks to be guards. Besides, MAGAts prefer playing dress-up when there is no actual threat involved.

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)

5. There is another thread doing the same.

Reply to OneBro (Reply #2)

Sat May 30, 2020, 04:15 PM

May 2020

The amount of nonsense being posted is higher than usual.

Liberal In Texas

(13,601 posts)

3. That's the National Guard

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sat May 30, 2020, 08:20 AM

May 2020

One of the ones he was talking to was a woman not a teenage boy.

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