I'd encourage everyone to read the entire J.D. Simkins piece at Military Times , such is his obvious contempt for what is being done with the National Guard. Such menial jobs used to be performed by the National Park Service (NDS), but with upwards of 25% of their staff gone due to DOGE, those tasks aren't getting done.

National Guard troops recently dispatched to Washington, D.C., were notified last week they would be authorized to carry service weapons “solely in response to an imminent threat,” according to a Guard statement.

Many guardsmen, however, were unaware the imminent threat posed would come in the form of unkempt flower beds and tree debris, their weapons akin to those wielded by an Anglo-Saxon fyrd under Alfred the Great.

But such is the reality for many of the 2,300 or s

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