Duckworth says DHS fled Navy base near Chicago during visit from Democrats

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: msn/The Hill

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Sunday said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fled a Navy base near Chicago during a visit from Democrats. Trump border czar Tom Homan confirmed late last month that the Trump administration was discussing using Naval Station Great Lakes, which is near Chicago, to back up immigration detention efforts.

Duckworth said she, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) had asked DHS about what they were doing at the Naval Station Great Lakes. Initially, DHS told the lawmakers they could not visit the base, Duckworth said.

“Senator Durbin, myself, Senator — Congressman Schneider sent a request into DHS to ask them to explain what exactly are you going to be doing at Great Lakes, and can we come look at your facility so we have a better understanding of what your operations are, and they replied, no, you can’t, and, in fact, gave their staff the day off on the day that we went to go look at the facilities and locked the doors and left the base,” Duckworth told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation,” referencing Naval Station Great Lakes.

“Basically, they fled the base,” she added.

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[Lovie777]

1. Chickens?..................................

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. B bawk buh bawk!

They know they are doing something wrong something bad so when Dems come like little bullies they run and hide if it looks like they’ll get caught doing wrong.

[Lovie777]

5. Like roaches................

[marble falls]

2. GLNTC. That sure brings back memories - Boot camp, singing Anchors Aweigh in the tunnel, then to ...

... Main Side for "A" school and Nuclear Prep School.

[70sEraVet]

12. I did boot camp in Orlando (in the summer)

Then 'A' school in Great Lakes (in fall/early winter).
Wished it was the other way 'round!
So, the base is going to become a detention center? Sickening.

[marble falls]

13. Then you didn't get to spend your first week in the WWII barracks. I did, in February. They tore down Snipes Castle ...

... and built a new chow hall and barracks in the nineties.

They'll never turn it into a detention center. What 'A' school - machinist mate, engine mans, gunners mate, ET ... ? Remember the Strip out in front of the main gate? I was there in '72.

[70sEraVet]

25. I went to BT school (Boiler Tech)

I missed you by a year. I was there at the end of '73 -- maybe left in Feb '74?

[marble falls]

26. My best friend in the Navy went BT. He got told he'd never get his twenty because the Chiefs and PO1's never ...

... retired. I went off to New London and Sub School Nov 73.

Fannon was one of the coolest dudes I met in boot camp and he also came from Akron. Once we were walking up to school and there was a JG on a bike with a brief case in in left hand. "Watch this." he said. He stepped from the sidewalk onto the curb and snapped of the prettiest salute you ever saw. The JG took his right hand off the handle bars to salute back and crashed in the street. The BT school was next to the MM, Engineman the other side of MM.

What we would do to keep from saluting. Pop covers and brush our hair back, get out of range at the last second, there were times when LG and Lts would walk right at us trying to vector us into salute range and if we had four of us we'd march to their oblique. If not we'd make a more acute angle of course. Or drop and tie our shoes.

Gawd I loved the Zumwalt Navy.

[70sEraVet]

31. Did you re-up when your enlistment was up (being nuke, I assume 6 years)?

When my four years were up, I had to take my discharge papers up the Chain of Command to be signed by each officer. Each officer is supposed to give a re-enlistment speech -- NOBODY gave me a speech, just signed my papers. Apparently, four years was enough for me AND for the Navy!
I'm happy to be a Veteran -- much like someone who was in prison is happy to be an EX- con!

[marble falls]

33. NOPE. Never got the speech, either. Glad I went, if not just for the VA benefits. Got to see a lot of great stuff ...

... meet some people I still think about. But I needed out, I was fortunate I was able to pick my civilian life up pretty much intact.

It taught me how to stand to in any situation.

[70sEraVet]

34. I still have my best friend from those days. We see each other a couple times a year.

[marble falls]

38. I try look them up every once in a while when I feel particularly old. When I was separated there was a horror show ...

... going on at home. The last three or four days was a blur and I never got the chance to get digits. Ran into a guy from boot camp in Akron a few years later, but I am no degenerate drinker and he was world class. I do miss Bill Fannon and I have no evidence he came back to Akron, Tony DeLuca became a White House Honor Guard and I lost track of him when he went to DC.

[Traildogbob]

27. Operations Specialist

[marble falls]

29. Carriers, Marine craft? Auxiliary craft? Sounds like real work to me!

[Kaleva]

39. Same here. Boot camp in Orlando & FT "A" school in Great Lakes

Then on to “C” school in Damneck, VA.

[Onthefly]

16. What was that smell at the chow hall?

Many theories. I believe it was the grease trap.

[marble falls]

28. That place was the craziest place. There was a four man space that hid a girl in their big locker for several weeks, ...

... finally the Navy investigators found her by bringing in a dog. What place was built by the lowest bidder. And showed it. But the food was good. Specially the fresh baked stuff for breakfast.

[Submariner]

35. THE FOOD WAS GOOD at GLAKES!?!

I was there for boot in '65 and IC "A" school in '66, and BOTH times the scrambled eggs were like runny snot when it was ladled onto the tray. There were so many boots, and future submarine "Non-Qualified Pukes" (NQP) to feed, they didn't have time to cook the snot until it firmed up, we just sort of ate and drank the scrambled as is. And don't even ask how runny the over easy fried eggs were.

You know damn well the food was never good until you got on the submarines with us. The New York Sirloins with fried onions and mushrooms at any time of day you wanted it. Just had to clean up your own mess which was no problem.

And the steak smell from the grill helped knock down the diesel fuel mist in the aft battery mess.

[marble falls]

37. Not as good as New London, but yes, the chow was plenty good. Food on board was a whole something else ...

... no one believes me when I tell them you got to eat what you pretty much wanted, steaks, lobster tails, subs was good duty. Better bunks, no hot bunking, good lighting, paneling on the bulkheads, acoustic on the overhead, tile on the deck. If you needed a bigger view, the missile room was as big or bigger than a basket ball court, with a 20ft overhead. They just don't believe it. AND we get sleep very close to nuclear reactors and whatever missiles are in the tube. Loved it until I didn't so much. Just don't know how or why I did it, but I don't want to do it again.

In a lot of ways it was like living in our parents' rec room, except for the valve turning and gauge logging. Great place to get up a game of spades. People got along a lot better than in the surface fleet. People took their jobs very seriously.

[Onthefly]

41. Slimy eggs and a side of hash

Chase it down with bug juice and bilge water coffee. Those were the days!

[Onthefly]

40. Great twist on the Goat Locker!

[pfitz59]

20. I did EM A School there over winter 81-82.

Sooooo cold.

[marble falls]

30. Snow watch in boot camp is where I learned to never, ever volunteer for anything, ever. As in NEV-ER.

[marble falls]

32. At least you were on Hospital side where there were women and everyone got to stay clean ...

... a friend of mine from high school was there in '68. He got caught down in Mayfair smoking pot. Got reassigned to a Marine company got to run with them 5:30am every morning and form up with them. Then got to catch a plane to Da Nang. Came back in one piece just fine.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

3. So what are they hiding?

... eom.

[tanyev]

6. Hauling ass like Hawley.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Coward.

[3Hotdogs]

8. Democrats are scary. Hey, I know !!!

Give Bernie masks to all undocumented immigrants.

[MaineBlueBear]

9. Fled

because everything they're doing is perfectly legal.

/s

[NJCher]

10. Sounds like another

TACO session to me.

[angrychair]

11. That won't work

2 years from now. That won't work 3 years from now.There will be no where to run.

[ZDU]

15. Surveil, locate, apprehend

Leave no stone unturned. Never again

[democrank]

14. Cowards

If they’re so proud of all their ides for change, why don’t they stand still and defend them? Instead they run.

[Submariner]

17. What's Purple and SUX

GRAPE LAKES NAVAL TRAINING CENTER is what we called it in the ‘60s.

It is/was boot camp for new recruits, and “A” School to be an electrician or machinist mate. There are/were many WWII era barracks like for housing recruits/anti-Trump prisoners.

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. That's positively horrifying.

I say that way too many times a day lately.

[AllaN01Bear]

19. hem.

[hadEnuf]

21. So now the Democratic Party is the official enemy of the government?

They are locked out and given little, if any, information about what the military or any other branch is doing.

This is a defacto war against Democrats.

I suggest that the Democratic party start treating this as the war that it is.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. They are gonna have to bring in a team

who is expert in psyops and countering it as well as being experienced in selective application of that as part of our strategy.

[Hornedfrog2000]

44. If they havent already started,

It is way past too late. My guess after watching the enabling and lack of urgency the last 10 years, is they will continue doing the same ineffective shit they have done.

[mn9driver]

22. Members of Congress have the legal authority to inspect detention facilities

being run by the federal government at any time. It is written into law. They should go back with bolt cutters and inspect that facility, whatever the hell it is.

[Escurumbele]

24. Democrats need to go again unannounced.

[Hornedfrog2000]

45. But theyre soft

So they wont.

[OldBaldy1701E]

36. I wish they would visit every day until they get in.

Just be there every morning so that they literally cannot open the gates without the two of them waltzing in.

They won't, but I wish they would.

[RainCaster]

42. T A C O

Trumpies
Always
Chicken
Out

[ShazzieB]

43. I'm glad Duckworth, Durbin, abd Schneider are on this.

Especially Duckworth. That woman is as bad ass as they come. Do NOT fuck with Tammy Duckworth, ICE. You will live to regret it!

[GiqueCee]

46. I can smell...

... the corruption from here. These people are evil down to their DNA.