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Originally Posted by Willravel
Military personnel have very different training than police in dealing with pretty much any situation.
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When I was in the military I was on an EST team. What you would call SWAT. WE were highly trained, and we wee damned good. So good, in fact, that we were called on to train local civilian Law Enforcement agencies. Those that we trained went back to train their own agencies units. "Very different training"? Not so much, I think.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
The military has access to more substantial armament.
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Granted, your local PD doesn't have access to F-14s, minuteman missles, stealth bombers or tomahawk cruise missles...but I guaranwelldamntee you that they have access to the exact same small arms that the military carries.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
maybe because todays violent protestors can be as armed as those two and not as peaceful as one may think.
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True.
And...I'll let you in something a little scarier. Back in 1985, agents of the FBI came to Offutt Air Force Base to brief the Security Police of their growing concern over the emergence of the Bloods and the Crips in Omaha. These were, until then, only in L.A. Their concern was that these gangs were more heavily armed than we were on a military installation.